House of the Twilight Moon — Margaret Chittenden

SHRINE OF DEATH -- Marissa Harcourt had been excited about her trip to the exotic Orient because once again she would be reunited with her long-estranged father and she would at last escape her domineering grandfather. -- But once in Japan, Marissa found her father unfriendly, aloof, and not the man she had dreamed would greet her with welcome arms. That was only the beginning....

While sightseeing at the sacred shrines of Nikko, Marissa stumbled upon the body of a Japanese man. Fear turned to dread when she returned to the site and the body had disappeared.

And then all her illusions about her new and carefree life in Japan shattered. She began to receive anonymous threats. Then someone tried to kill her. Dan Connor, the seemingly light-hearted flirtatious American with whom she was rapidly falling in love...was he being manipulated by her grandfather in another revenge scheme against her father? It seemed she had no one left to trust and, now, nowhere else to run....