"Vivid and highly addictive" - the BBC. The young Emperor Taliesin has been wearing a silver mask ever since he was a child. No one has ever seen his face. Is he really the Son of Heaven? Or a fox spirit in human form?Annoyed by rumors, the Emperor sets off on a quest to prove that he is really human. Only his personal bodyguard, the divine swordswoman Sei Shonagon, knows the truth. The Adventures of Snow Fox & Sword Girl is a sophisticated fairy tale in Kurosawa costumes. A wonderfully funny, sexy, swashbuckling romp through the familiar landscape of Chinese and Japanese swordfighting epics, stylishly delivered, as its opening credits promise, “in modern English and in full Technicolor”. Rated R (Restricted) for Adult Themes. The first book of the Hoshimaruhon trilogy. Wena Poon is an American novelist and photographer. Her first novel Alex y Robert, about a Texan woman bullfighter in Spain, was adapted by the BBC and broadcast as a 10-episode Radio 4 series. Her play The Wood Orchid, about the Chinese woman warrior Hua Mulan, was professionally staged in Westminster Abbey, London by the Bush Theatre. Author of 13 books of literary fiction, Wena won the UK's Willesden Herald Short Story Prize and was nominated for France's Prix Hemingway and the UK's Bridport Prize for Poetry. She was also a two-time nominee for Ireland's Frank O'Connor Award and the Singapore Literature Prize. Born and raised in Singapore, Wena is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. She is a lawyer by profession. Her website is www.wenapoon.com.