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The Shima Imperium verges on the brink of environmental collapse; an island nation once rich in tradition and myth, now decimated by clockwork industrialization and the machine-worshipers of the Lotus Guild. The skies are red as blood, the land is choked with toxic pollution, and the great spirit animals that once roamed its wilds have departed forever.

Griffins are supposed to be extinct. So when Yukiko and her warrior father are sent to capture one for the Shogun, they fear that their lives are over. Soon Yukiko finds herself stranded: a young woman alone in the wilderness, with only a furious, crippled griffin for company. As Yukiko learns the horrifying extent of the Shogun’s crimes against her country and her family, she becomes determined to make him pay.

Your blood-red skies are filled with smoke. Your bleach-white histories with lies. You walk sleeping. Wake senseless. Breathing deep of toxic blooms and forgetting all that has gone before. But I remember. I remember when two brothers waged bloody war over the right to sit in their father’s empty chair. I remember when the skies above Shima were not red, but blue. Filled with thunder tigers. I remember when they left you. And I remember why. Let me tell you, monkey-child…

It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness.

Der erste Teil einer epischen neuen Fantasy-Serie, die eine unvergessliche neue Heldin und eine verblüffend originelle dystopische Steampunk-Welt mit einem Hauch von feudalem Japan vorstellt. Auf der Jagd des Kaisers nach den legendären Donnertigern findet sich Yukiko, die Tochter eines Jägers, Auge in Auge mit einem dieser beinahe ausgestorbenen Bestien wieder. Die Gedanken des wütenden und verkrüppelten Tiers drehen sich nur um ihren Tod - Yukiko weiß das, sie kann seine Gedanken hören. Und um zu leben müssen sich die beiden wohl oder übel zusammentun.