Katana Duet Samurai's Forbidden Love Author:Silapa Jarun Twin samurai, Aki and Akeno Matsumoto, must overcome a past wartime tragedy while recognizing their growing forbidden love for one another. In America, their hosts, a brother and sister pair, Konrad and Klara Lennartsson, plot to tear the siblings apart. Author Silapa Jarun has created a unique story by mixing characters from Feudal Japan into a... more »n early American culture to fashion a story that is fast paced and unpredictable. Ms. Jarun has a taut grasp of background historical detail and the period comes alive with sensory perceptions, both in the Japanese setting and in Wisconsin, where the reader can almost feel the snap of cold and the bite of the wind. Emotional and sensual tensions between various combinations of the four characters tighten minutely and almost imperceptibly, but inescapably. A multilayered and complex story, Katana Duet is memorable and thought-provoking.« less