When mage clans' secret wars threaten to spill out of the shadows, government agents must contain the mess – and Peter Lanz has mopped up enough to become disillusioned with the world both mundane and magical. But when a high-speed chase through faerie dumps him in Japan, he finds himself embroiled in something more than a petty magi blood feud. A stranger in a strange land, he'll find an unlikely brother-in-arms, a land teeming with spirits older than his own country, a mysterious beauty with a dark secret — and at last, a reason to fight!