Kaminishi: Book One Michael Holden wakes up in an impossible reality: mid-nineteenth-century Japan, face to face with Shinjiro Kaminishi, a samurai warlord Michael has seen in a dream. Imprisoned by the warlord and interrogated about the future, Michael has no idea if what he's experiencing is real... and then he finds himself back in present-day America. Lord Shinjiro’s commanding presence and smoldering sexuality draw Michael again and again to the past, where dangerous information is revealed and Shinjiro's life is threatened. Through the mists of time and in the reality of modern Japan, Michael searches for the truth—and for the man who now owns his heart—Shinjiro Kaminishi.