Cherry blossom lipstick: check Smokey eyes: check Skinny jeans: check Dead kid in the mirror: check For sixteen year old Mattie Hathaway, this is her normal everyday routine. She's been able to see ghosts since her mother tried to murder her when she was five years old. No way does she want anyone to know she can talk to spooks. Being a foster kid is hard enough without being labeled a freak too. Normally, she just ignores the ghosts and they go away. There's a little glitch this time. The ghost she sees is her foster sister, Sally. Everyone thinks she's just another runaway. Mattie knows the truth, though-she's dead, murdered. Foster kids look out for each other and Mattie feels like she has to help Sally, but she can't do it alone. Against her better judgment, she teams up with a young police officer and together they set out to discover the truth of Sally's disappearance. Now the killer has set his sights on her. It becomes a race to see if she can find the truth before the serial killer finds her.

It has been eleven years since Christian Winters brought the plans of his old Sensai, Michael Neal, to an abrupt and bloody halt. His daughter Haley, named after the woman he loved and lost, is training with both her father and mother, becoming a formidable fighter in her own right. Christian has settled into a life much less action filled than his early twenties were, having opened his own dojo, while Melissa Cervantes Winters, now his wife has become a lawyer. Everything is going well, with the small family living quietly. An attempt to rob Christian of the things he loves most will set off a series of events that pulls him back into his old life of blood and vengeance, in an effort to protect his family, his honor, and soon, the world.

Daniel Stevens is a young man who spent most of his life training as a fighter. Alone in Chicago at nineteen years of age, he finds himself saving a convenience store clerk from being robbed and killed. After thwarting the robber in the only way he knows how, he is given a job offer by a mysterious woman. A chance to bring the criminals that run rampant within the city to a very unconventional form of justice. For years, he makes rapists, murderers and thieves pay for the crimes they commit, never realizing that every move he makes, brings a sinister plot closer and closer to fruition.