Rachel and Drew Snow are sisters whose lives have followed completely different paths. Married to a wonderful man and a mother to two teens, Rachel hasn't returned to her childhood home since being kicked out by her father after a careless act of teenage rebellion. Drew, her younger sister, followed her passion for music but takes side jobs to make ends meet and longs for stability. As close as they once were, the distance now between them seems more than they can bridge. But when their ailing mother, Haruki gives Rachel power of attorney and asks for a book in her sewing room, Rachel enlists her sister's help in the search. The book-which tells the tale of real-life female samurai Tomoe Gozen, an epic saga of love, loss, and conflict during twelfth-century Japan, reveals truths about Drew and Rachel's relationship that resonate across the centuries, connecting them in ways that turn their differences into assets"