Red River

Yuri Suzuki is an ordinary middle school student in modern Japan until a hand rises from a pool of water and drags her into the fourteenth-century BCE Hittite Empire. Queen Nakia summoned her as a human sacrifice, hoping Yuri’s blood will power a curse that removes the princes standing between Nakia’s son and the throne. Yuri escapes only because Prince Kail intervenes and hides her in the palace as his consort. Finding a path home means surviving the queen’s schemes before the window for returning to her own time closes. Yet Yuri is soon pulled into the empire’s rivalries, wars, and the lives of its people. Her courage earns her the name Ishtar, after the goddess of war, while her growing bond with Kail forces her to choose between the life she lost and the future forming around her.