The Shogun's Daughter

It's 1853, and Japan has remained sealed from the Western world for two hundred years. Worth Adams, a restless midshipman whose career has stalled in the dead waters of the U.S. Navy, finds his chance at legend when he signs aboard the clipper Sea Flight, bound for the forbidden islands. But Worth carries something more than ambition aboard that ship: his blood traces back to Will Adams, the first Englishman to set foot in Japan, a name still whispered in Japanese ports. As Sea Flight cuts toward Kagoshima Bay, Worth prepares to walk in footsteps that shaped history, while outside the ship's hull, the old Japan is about to shatter. This is a novel about the moment East met West through one man's eyes, but it's also a story about what we inherit from our ancestors and whether we can ever truly measure up to ghosts. Robert Ames Bennet writes with the romantic swell of the Edwardian adventure novel, full of sea storms, cultural discovery, and the ache of a young man seeking purpose in the shadow of a greater name.