Now, for whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers, a new wish will be
granted. A new age is about to dawn.
Raised by monks in the isolated Silent Winds temple, Yumeko has trained all her
life to hide her yokai nature. Half kitsune, half human, her skill with
illusion is matched only by her penchant for mischief. Until the day her home
is burned to the ground, her adoptive family is brutally slain and she is
forced to flee for her life with the temple’s greatest treasure—one part of the
ancient scroll.
There are many who would claim the dragon’s wish for their own. Kage Tatsumi, a
mysterious samurai of the Shadow Clan, is one such hunter, under orders to
retrieve the scroll… at any cost. Fate brings Kage and Yumeko together. With a
promise to lead him to the scroll, an uneasy alliance is formed, offering
Yumeko her best hope for survival. But he seeks what she has hidden away, and
her deception could ultimately tear them both apart.
With an army of demons at her heels and the unlikeliest of allies at her side,
Yumeko’s secrets are more than a matter of life or death. They are the key to
the fate of the world itself.
Now he has broken free.
Kitsune shapeshifter Yumeko has one task: to take her piece of the ancient and
powerful scroll to the Steel Feather temple in order to prevent the summoning
of the Harbinger of Change, the great Kami Dragon who will grant one wish to
whomever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers. But she has a new enemy now.
The demon Hakaimono, who for centuries was trapped in a cursed sword, has
escaped and possessed the boy she thought would protect her, Kage Tatsumi of
the Shadow Clan.
Hakaimono has done the unthinkable and joined forces with the Master of Demons
in order to break the curse of the sword and set himself free. To overthrow the
empire and cover the land in darkness, they need one thing: the Scroll of a
Thousand Prayers. As the paths of Yumeko and the possessed Tatsumi cross once
again, the entire empire will be thrown into chaos.
Kitsune shapeshifter Yumeko has given up the final piece of the Scroll of a
Thousand Prayers in order to save everyone she loves from imminent death. Now
she and her ragtag band of companions must journey to the wild sea cliffs of
Iwagoto in a desperate last-chance effort to stop the Master of Demons from
calling upon the Great Kami dragon and making the wish that will plunge the
empire into destruction and darkness.
Shadow clan assassin Kage Tatsumi has regained control of his body and agreed
to a true deal with the devil—the demon inside him, Hakaimono. They will share
his body and work with Yumeko and their companions to stop a madman and separate
Hakaimono from Tatsumi and the cursed sword that had trapped the demon for
nearly a millennium.
But even with their combined skills and powers, this most unlikely team of
heroes knows the forces of evil may be impossible to overcome. And there is
another player in the battle for the scroll, a player who has been watching,
waiting for the right moment to pull strings that no one even realized
existed…until now.
