Dragon Sword and Wind Child (ISBN 0-374-30466-1) is the first book of award-winning[citation needed] fantasy writer Noriko Ogiwara.

Ogiwara wrote two sequels, Hakuchou Iden (白鳥異伝 Swan's Strange Legend) and Usubeni Tennyo (薄紅天女 Pink Nymph).

Saya is a young maiden who was adopted by an elderly couple who found her in the forest when she was an infant and raised to worship and revere the God of Light and his two immortal children, the passionate and fierce Princess Teruhi and the subdued and melancholic Prince Tsukishiro.

It is this aspect, Saya discovers, of her that intrigues and attracts Tsukishiro and infuriates and causes Teruhi to despise her since she resembles her previous reincarnation, the Princess Sayura.

Saya, despite having worshiped the Light all her life and looked down on the People of Darkness, finds that she cannot escape her destiny as the Water Maiden, symbolized the magatama shaped jewel that was clutched in her hand when she was born.