Teahouse Fire

''When I was nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate...

What I asked for? Any life but this one.''

When Aurelia flees the fire that kills her missionary uncle and leaves her orphaned and alone in nineteenth-century Japan, she has no idea how quickly her wish will be answered. Knowing only a few words of Japanese she hides in a tea house and is adopted by the family who own it: graduall...