Publisher's Synopsis
Twenty years have passed since Shiro Kurosawa lost his parents and Birdie. A killer is loose in his guild lands, threatening the lives of women who are close to him. A neighboring, illegal guild threatens to restart a street war that once ravaged his lands. Can Shiro catch this killer and prevent a street war from erupting in time to save those closest to him? Yoshi Sato has found a place for himself among those of the Lotus guild. He is accepted for who his is, but a hole still gapes wide in his heart. One that he tries to numb, but nothing works. He's drawn to the people of Kurios, but the acrid words some of their number have thrown at him in the past, make him hesitate. Are his sins too great to be forgiven? On the night of her father's death, two strangers appear at Lark Nightingale's door. One of the men claims to be her long-lost brother. With no memory of her childhood she has no way of knowing if what this man says is true. She must trust Kurios to lead her as she follows these men to their home in the plains, in hopes of unlocking the doors to her memories. What happened that would make her choose to forget these men? What disasters lay in her past? Are the doors to her childhood memories worth opening?
