A burned down house. A half of a pin. And a tragic event that links them both together... For Mo, things have come to a standstill, something that he doesn't seem to mind so long as squeaking by on a bartender's salary means that he keeps the guilt of that night just as sleepy as his life. So long as he can play the piano; so long as he can fill the air with music, both of these seem like the perfect escape--that is, until Anemone comes barreling into his life. Loud, headstrong, and a little obnoxious, the return of Mo's old highschool classmate signals a return to his past; a return to his guilt; a return to every insecurity that the do-nothing, go-nowhere town of Holly's Post as able to lull out of him for the past few years. Because like Mo, she too is intimately intertwined with the night the Strongpaw house burned down. But maybe this is a good thing. As Anemone both figuratively and literally shakes up his life, the two developed a bond that helps to grow and strengthen the other. Yet, Mo quickly finds this to be a delicate balancing act. One that demands him to embrace his new life, while facing his old one at the same time. One that can only begin to unravel, exposing the secrets of the event that binds these two at the night of that harrowing inferno. One that centers around a half of a pin...

He's only got 13 deals to make before death... Mafuyu has lived most of his life as a monster feeding off the souls of his fellow yokai. And with his ability to lure his prey into magical Faustian pacts, it becomes no surprise when the kitsune becomes the target of the spirit world's overseer, King Yama. Mafuyu is prepared to be a perpetual thorn in his king's side. But what he didn't count on was being baited into capture by the one thing that matters most to him--his betrothed. Cast down into Assiah, the mortal world, and separated from his fiance, Mafuyu becomes determined to do the impossible: to become a yokai again, escape his mortal world prison, and return to Tsuyuki's side. And with the help of an eccentric shopkeep, the kitsune hopes to brew a special elixir that will return him to the spirit world--The Nectar of Gods. Though Mafuyu soon learns that something sinister lurks behind the creation of this brew, and that to obtain the components to make it, he'll need to use his power to make magically binding deals to do so. And when that very ability becomes cursed, Mafuyu must choose between returning back to his beloved, or his very life. Every step Mafuyu makes steeps him more into Assiah's mystery, and more into his own fate. All while making his 13 Deadly Deals.