Japanese Fox

Kitsune are fox spirits that take on human form and play tricks on people. One such man fell in love with a kitsune disguised as a beautiful woman.

Ideal wife and sexual vampire. Prankster and saint. Tree and train. The Japanese fox left her paw-print on Japanese culture. She challenges traditional, negative views of women. She brings harmony and division. She possesses and protects. She is the shape of Japan's soul. Discover why the fox is Japan's most storied animal.

Tamamo grew up in the imperial court, where the space between words mattered more than the words themselves, where battles were fought with poetry. As the favored of the Emperor Junnin, Tamamo knew well how poetry could cut. As the adopted daughter of a once-great noble family, she had no business loving the emperor, nor should he had loved her. After all, that was for the prominent Fujiwara family to decide. It didn't help that she also had a secret: She was a fox. Outside the capital, poetry had been exchanged for sharpened steel. Determined to return to power, the former empress and her ...

Part girl. Part fox. All ninja. Thirteen-year-old Kitsune Odate is a bakemono, an animal shapeshifter born to human parents. Considered a demon, the only way she can live is to serve in the Imperial Ninja Corps, a secret police charged with fighting the Yatashin Empire's most dangerous criminals. Kitsune thought her first mission would be easy. Infiltrate Sendai Castle, find proof its lord is stealing Imperial gold, and escape. No one expected Inugami—demon dogs summoned to do their master’s will—would ambush her. To prove her worth, Kitsune vows to hunt down the Inugami’s summoner,...

Trust is a song—break the right note and the city bleeds. When New Arcadia’s waterworks start “singing,” neighborhoods black out, minutes go missing, and innocents wake hollowed. The trail leads to Saint Meridian’s aquifer and a secret “Choir Gate” tuned to the Seven Seals—exactly the kind of nightmare the Silver Syndicate loves to conduct. Dan Black—hybrid sorcerer, part-time wolf, full-time trouble magnet—teams up with the Arcane Guild to hold the line. The plan: infiltrate the cathedral’s sub-basements, outfox a null-field chorus, and keep the last Seals out of ...

Yumeko the shape-shifter had one task: take her piece of the ancient and powerful scroll to the Steel Feather temple and prevent the summoning of the great Kami Dragon. But she has a new enemy now. The demon Hakaimono has escaped and possessed the samurai she thought would protect her, Kage Tatsumi of the Shadow Clan. Hakaimono has done the unthinkable and joined forces with Genno, the Master of Demons, to break his curse and set himself free. But Genno wishes to overthrow the empire and cover the land in darkness. To do that he needs only one thing, the scroll Yumeko is hiding.