Japanese Gothic

In this lyrical,wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythologytwo people living centuries apart discover a door between their worlds. October2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge–his father’s new home in Japana house hidden by sword ferns and wild ginger. But something is terribly wrong with the house: no animals will come near itthe bedroom window isn’t always a windowand a woman with a sword appears in the yard when night falls. October1877: Sen is a young samurai in exilehiding from the imperial soldiers in a house behind the sword ferns. A monster came home from war wearing her father’s facebut Sen would do anything to please himeven turn her sword on her own mother. She knows the soldiers will soon slaughter her whole family when she sees a terrible omen: a young foreign man who appears outside her window. One of these people is a ghostand one of these stories is a lie. Something is hiding beneath the house of sword fernsand Lee and Sen will soon wish they never unburied it.