title: Manga: The Complete Guide
author:  Jason Thompson 
description: Jason Thompson has over ten years experience as a manga editor, working at SHOHEN JUMP magazine and other publications. His writing has appeared in Animerica and The Comics Journal.
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  > CONTENTS
  
  > [Chapter 1](part0002_split_000.html#1T140-1d0598a3567f4990ab0cf1f254790cee)
  
  > [Chapter 2](index_split_003.html#filepos18621)
  
  > [Chapter 3](index_split_004.html#filepos42348)
  
  > [Chapter 4](index_split_004.html#filepos42348)
  
  > [Chapter 5](index_split_004.html#filepos42348)
  
  > [Chapter 6](index_split_004.html#filepos42348)
  
  > [Chapter 7](index_split_004.html#filepos42348)
  
  > [Chapter 8](index_split_004.html#filepos42348)
  
  > [Also by Kerrigan Byrne](index_split_004.html#filepos42348)
  
  > [About the Author](index_split_004.html#filepos42348)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
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  Calvine Village, Highlands, Scotland – 1891
  
  Winter Solstice
  
  FATE HAD BEEN Vanessa Latimer’s foe since she could remember.
  
  She was the most unlucky, ungainly person of her acquaintance, and had
  resigned herself to an early death. However, she always imagined said death
  would be glorious, as well.
  
  Or at least memorable.
  
  Something like tripping