


But who is behind the spell, and why, will take her on a perilous journey deep into a dangerous world of ghosts and spirits. Li-lin suspects Gong Tau, a dirty and primitive form of dark magic. The nine-year-old has died from suffocation … specifically by flowers growing out of her nose and mouth. Using only her martial arts training, spiritual magic, a sword made from peachwood, and the walking, talking spirit of a human eye, Li-lin stands alone to defend her immigrant community from supernatural threats.īut when the body of a young girl is brought to the deadhouse Li-lin oversees for a local group of gangsters, she faces her most bewildering–and potentially dangerous–assignment yet. San Francisco's cobblestone streets are haunted, but Chinatown has an unlikely protector in a young Daoist priestess named Li-lin.
