Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness

About

Balsa, the wandering female bodyguard, returns to Kanbal — the mountainous country she fled as a child. She came back to honour her dead mentor, Jiguro. Instead, she uncovers a conspiracy that has framed both Jiguro's memory and her own past, and the only way to clear their names is to descend into the political darkness that drove them out in the first place. Nahoko Uehashi's sequel deepens the world of the Moribito series while giving Balsa the one mission she can't approach as a professional: the defence of her own history. A fantasy novel about returning home and discovering that the story you were told about why you left was a lie.