Even Bodies Fall From Trees

The time is December 1863. At age 17, Carlotta Wren, daughter of shipping magnate Randolph Wren, has her life planned as the future wife of Peter Ashford, son of the U.S. Deputy Consul to Japan. However, when the Japanese arrest her father for gun smuggling at the time of the family’s arrival in Yokohama and then both her parents disappear, Carlotta is left to care for her 9-year brother, Wesley. Adjusting to life in the Yokohama foreign settlement is challenging enough, but when a Japanese citizen is murdered and Carlotta’s father implicated, Carlotta must deal not only with missing parents but also a murderer bent on revenge, in a city that makes the American West look like an afternoon picnic.