Red River

Red River (天は赤い河のほとり, Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori, lit. The Sky Is on the Banks of the Red River), also known as Anatolia Story, is a shōjo manga series by Chie Shinohara. It is published in Japan by Shogakukan in Sho-Comi and collected in 28 volumes. It is published in English in North America by Viz Media, with 25 volumes released as of April 2009 and the remaining 3 published thereafter. In 2000, the series won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo.

Plot
Red River is about a fifteen-year-old Japanese girl named Yuri Suzuki, who is magically transported to Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Empire in Anatolia around the year 1325BC.

She was summoned by Queen Nakia who means to use Yuri as a human sacrifice. Yuri's blood is the key element needed in placing a curse upon the princes of the land so that they will perish, leaving Nakia's son as the sole heir to the throne. As the story progress, however, Yuri not only repeatedly manages to escape Nakia's scheming, she also becomes revered as an incarnation of the goddess Ishtar and falls in love with prince Kail.