Secret Samurai Trilogy

Exciting adventure where genders mix and time flows back and forth between traditional and modern Japan.

Listed as one of the must-read Japan-related novels by SAVVY TOKYO MAGAZINE

‘An original plot, interesting and likeable characters, a sweet romance, a time-travel switch and a dose of Japanese history makes this book totally unique. The author’s complete understanding of Japanese culture is really obvious right down to the fine details.’ Renae Lucas-Hall, SAVVY TOKYO MAGAZINE

'Original, powerful, exciting and intriguing.' Margaret Kaine, Award Winning Author

Two women from different cultures and centuries - and both samurai


The third book in the Secret Samurai Trilogy. Bebe Bell is a modern Englishwoman time-slipped into the mind of male samurai, Kai Matsuda, who is fighting for the future of his country in the civil war of the 1860's. Events escalate and steer them into unexpected and dangerous directions as Bebe struggles with her duel life and a deeper understanding of it and Kenji faces his own dangers both physical and emotional.

Yoshi is an aristocratic woman forced to disguise herself as a male samurai in order to survive. After a chance meeting she finds danger and increased, undreamed of, opportunities. A new world beckons which needs ambition, courage and trust.

The future of the new world shifts on sand.

‘Jill Rutherford has established herself as a writer with great insight into Japanese culture and the power to deliver unique plots and marvellous characters’ SAVVY TOKYO MAGAZINE

Jill Rutherford is the author of bestselling memoir, Cherry Blossoms, Sushi and Takarazuka Seven Years in Japan and Secret Samurai Trilogy voted as one of the seven must-read Japan-related novels by Savvy Tokyo Magazine. Her latest books are, The Rocking Stone, a family saga based in the Welsh Mining Valleys of the early 20th century and a true story for children (and for people who love cats!) of Tama, the Extraordinary Cat who saved a railway company and became a goddess. Jill lived in Japan for seven years but now lives on the south coast of England and when she’s not writing you’ll find her walking her dog, meeting friends, eating out and drinking red wine, but not necessarily in that order.