The Stolen Emperor

A Victorian-era romantice tale of intrigue, honor, kidnapping, and political machinations in 13th-century Japan, as a baby, heir to the Japanese Imperial throne, becomes a pawn in a ruthless game of power and nobles and peasants alike find their courage and honor tested.About the author: Mary Crawford Fraser (1851-1922) was born in Italy and raised there and in England and New Jersey. She was the daughter of American sculptor Thomas Crawford, sister of American novelist F. Marion Crawford, and niece of Julia Ward Howe (the American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"). As the wife of British diplomat Hugh Fraser, she followed her husband to his postings in Peking, Rome, Santiago, and Tokyo before his sudden death in 1894. Under her married name of Mrs. Hugh Fraser, she was also the author of "Palladia" (1896), "A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan" (1898). "The Heart of the Geisha" (1904), and "Italian Yesterdays" (1913).