Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1)

Title: Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1)
ISBN: 9780330415286
Author: Lian Hearn
Rating: ⭐ 4.06 (625 ratings, reviews)

Takeo is the only survivor when a brutal massacre wipes out his village. That day he cheats death, but his life will never be his own again.Rescued, then adopted, by the mysterious Lord Otori Shigeru, Takeo starts a new life as heir to the Otori clan. But a sinister organization called The Tribe claims him as their own and has dark plans for his future. For Takeo has incredible magical powers — he can make himself invisible, he can be in two place at once, he hears what other people cannot. These skills make him the perfect assassin — a deadly weapon for The Tribe.But before Takeo will pledge his life to them he must make a dangerous journey of revenge. There is no place for the passion of first love — but when Takeo meets the beautiful, forbidden Kaede, he knows that he can never give her up...