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Ronin Onigahara has always been too much.
Too loud, too wild, too ready to swing first and ask questions never. At fifteen, she’s already a Chinatown legend—Shorty Rock, the tiny girl with stormy blue eyes and flying knees, riding for her block and her broken-but-brilliant family. But one violent day at Harborview High ends in sirens, restraints, and a hospital bed… and a new word stamped on her file: bipolar.
Now there are pills in her palm, rules on her back, and everyone watching to see if she’ll snap again. The meds make her slow, soft around the edges—safe. Manageable. The kind of girl who keeps her head down and her mouth shut.
Except Ronin was never built to be manaegable.
When quiet kids at school start acting strange—and some stop showing up at all—Ronin feels the pattern long before she can prove it. Maybe it’s paranoia. Maybe it’s her illness. Or maybe the storm in her head is the only thing paying attention while the rest of the city looks away.
To protect her block, her siblings, and the people nobody notices, Ronin has to decide which is more dangerous: the world that wants her silent… or the storm that refuses to let her be.
A STORM CALLED RONIN is a gritty, heart-punch of a story about family, survival, and a girl learning to live with the hurricane inside her
Ronin Onigahara has always been too much.
Too loud, too wild, too ready to swing first and ask questions never. At fifteen, she’s already a Chinatown legend—Shorty Rock, the tiny girl with stormy blue eyes and flying knees, riding for her block and her broken-but-brilliant family. But one violent day at Harborview High ends in sirens, restraints, and a hospital bed… and a new word stamped on her file: bipolar.
Now there are pills in her palm, rules on her back, and everyone watching to see if she’ll snap again. The meds make her slow, soft around the edges—safe. Manageable. The kind of girl who keeps her head down and her mouth shut.
Except Ronin was never built to be manaegable.
When quiet kids at school start acting strange—and some stop showing up at all—Ronin feels the pattern long before she can prove it. Maybe it’s paranoia. Maybe it’s her illness. Or maybe the storm in her head is the only thing paying attention while the rest of the city looks away.
To protect her block, her siblings, and the people nobody notices, Ronin has to decide which is more dangerous: the world that wants her silent… or the storm that refuses to let her be.
A STORM CALLED RONIN is a gritty, heart-punch of a story about family, survival, and a girl learning to live with the hurricane inside her