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Huijin raised the boy. Watched him step, hesitant, into the place meant for his older brother. 
But the boy is no longer a boy, and Huijin no longer knows how to reach him.
After the haunting at Caodi village, Yin Yue returns to Yuchi Court changed. The old monk Huixin believes a strange talent stirs within him, a power Yin Yue refuses to name.
But there is little time to seek answers in the quiet arts of Sheng. When an honored friend is taken by brigands, tensions with Clan Mao threaten to ignite a war. Yin Yue, ever softer than the world allows, pleads for peace. But peace is brittle in a land so full of ghosts. What awaits in the brigands' lair is not mere man's cruelty. When an ancient presence awakens, not all leave the mountain alive. 
In the aftermath, wounds fester. Trust fractures. And as whispers spread, a question begins to form:
Was this misfortune, or design? 
And who, unseen, is shaping what's to come?
SYNOPSIS VOLUME 1:
Grief is a restless ghost. Left untended, it festers. Left unspoken, it haunts.
Yin Yue was never meant to lead Clan Ming. That had been his radiant brother's fate, until the former zongzhu of Ming met his end in disgrace. Now, the weight of the disgraced clan rests on his narrow shoulders, his every step watched by Huijin, the man who raised him and the man who cannot forgive him. Alongside them walks an aging swordmaster, oathbound to a boy he knows he cannot protect. 
When a village is stalked by the ghost of a beast, Yin Yue is obliged to intervene. But the land remembers what men forget. Old wounds seep beneath quiet soil, and not all spirits can be banished. As the past sharpens its teeth, Yin Yue must ask himself: is the haunting in the village, or in the people he calls his own?