When a legion of foreign mercenaries attacks their village, young Takashi Asano and his best friend Kamari Shiro set out for Harakima castle, the seat of Lord Orran, to warn him of the impending threat. Ripped from his old life and thrust along this unknown path, Takashi encounters many strange things that change his world forever; he learns of the wolves and the reason he feels a strange connection with them, he learns of Orran's Blade and the terrible monster locked within it and he meets Meera, daughter of Lord Orran, and learns what he will do to have her by his side... Book 1 of The Hirono Chronicles trilogy - MEERA takes you on a journey into the distant past to a land where honour, respect and duty are valued above life itself, a land where death is no barrier to loyalty... or to love.