Japan, 1573.

The shogun has been driven from Kyoto, Nobunaga's power is spreading, and old loyalties are collapsing.

Sent west with Saburo to secure Morioka's supply routes, Akitsune Mori enters a country of broken bridges, forced levies, burned villages, and shifting authority.

In a land where choosing can kill—and refusing to choose can kill just as surely—loyalty becomes a question of survival.

The Ashes of the Shogun is a historical epic of samurai warfare, brotherhood, and survival in the final decades of the Sengoku age.