Set in 1622, when the religious wars and persecutions of musketeer France and medieval Japan furthered prejudice and intolerance, The Crystals of Yukitake tells the story of Monique de Champlain's quest for healing. Young and beautiful, she asks nothing more from life than always to be happy. Her dashing fiance, buccaneer Rodrigo Oliveiro de Sousa, agrees-he believes their happiness can be guaranteed by the perfect health and endless wealth granted by certain blood-red crystals which legend says lie hidden on a mountaintop in faraway Japan. His success in his resolve takes on a dire urgency...