Cirrus@Austlit

'Imagine if you will, a world where our history pages have been smudged, ever so slightly. A world where places and people sort of, well…differ from our current reality.

'Our history books suggest the Titanic sank during her maiden voyage and that Nikola Tesla has no place on the mantle of great inventors, but this tale, from the memoirs of Sir Swarley Paxmore, tells a different, skewed story…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Edo period Japan is full of beauty—lethal beauty. Under the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the three-hundred Daimyō, social order is strict, the country is isolationist, but culture and the arts flourish.

'Amongst it all, a young man, born the seventh son of an impoverished farming family, leaves everything he’s ever known in search of adventure, wealth, and a good wife.

'Stay on the path…

'Failing to heed his mother’s dire warning Takashi soon discovers that the ancient yōkai of legend are much more than myth, and that not everything is always as it seems.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'What if I told you that the creatures from Lovecraft’s stories are real?

'Creatures from another realm, woven into stories at a time where such revelations of truth would have seen Lovecraft locked away in an asylum. To the mere mortal his work is a collection of fiction, but what about the reader, the one who can see beyond the tales and can see these creatures amongst us? That one is the Chosen One.

'The one who can release Cthulhu from the depths of the ocean.

'What would you do as the Chosen One? Would you open the world to Cthulhu, thus condemning all to death, or would you sacrifice yourself to save humanity?

'I was chosen, and now I must decide.

'I do not have much time…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.