Japanese Fox

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.

A murdered mother. A stolen inheritance. A daughter raised on steel, poison, and quiet vengeance. In the shadows of Edo-era Japan, a young girl named Chiyo grows beneath the weight of a serpent’s crime—her mother’s death disguised as misfortune, her father’s honor erased by whispers. But the snake that struck her family still coils in silk nearby… waiting to strike again. By day, Chiyo becomes the perfect courtesan in the House of Snow—graceful, obedient, unseen. By night, she becomes something far more dangerous: a silent blade, trained in fortified venom, deception, and ...

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.

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,...

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 ...

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 ...