The release date for the English version of 'Red River, Vol. 1' by
Chie Shinohara is May 2004. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Pretty Japanese lady Yuri is overjoyed after kissing her attractive childhood friend-turned-boyfriend, Himuro, for the first time. Yuri just passed her college admission test. As all of this is going on, she begins to realize that the water agitates as she approaches it! One evening, she is dragged into the water by hands that emerge from a puddle on the sidewalk. When she comes up out of the water, she discovers that she has been taken to an old Middle Eastern hamlet. After being apprehended by military forces and brought to the queen's palace, she finds out that the queen had her abducted in order to use her blood in a ceremony that would ultimately result in the deaths of two princes vying for the throne.