LilyMonroe-
(This is the 2nd book of the Mononoke, the first book was about Mononoke: The Phantom in the Rain, and this book is the series of the Mononoke. Next book will be about the New Mononoke movie Ashes in the Rage.)
When strange deaths start piling up, when shadows move without bodies, when whispers curl through the walls. The Medicine Seller appears. He never fights the spirit right away. Instead, he questions everyone - coldly, patiently - until secrets spill like blood from a wound. Only when he learns the Form of the spirit, its Truth, and the Reason for its rage, does he draw the hidden sword from his box. Only now does he realize he has a female friend at His side who is stuck in time and doesn't know how to escape, so as a Mononoke killer herself, she decides to help him.