The Western Fox Chronicles Book IV: The Wreck of the Beaumont
14 parts Complete After extinguishing the Lantern of Incarnation and shattering the Kagami Sect's ritual on Mt. Inasayama, Aki Maruyama uncovers a truth more unsettling than any flame-touched doctrine: the cult's final conviction lies not in fire, but beneath the sea.
A dying confession points to the long-lost wreck of the Beaumont, the French vessel that carried Aki's birth parents across the storm that orphaned him. It is there-somewhere in the treacherous waters beyond Nagasaki-that the last fragment of his father's legacy vanished beneath the waves.
Determined to finally face the night that shaped his life, Aki sets sail with Rin, Toku, and Father Elias into dangerous foreign waters. But the sea guards its secrets fiercely. Coastal smugglers whisper of strange lights on the water, foreign agents scour the reefs for something "left behind," and a hidden faction tied to Aki's father seems determined to reach the wreck before he does.
As Aki's past resurfaces piece by painful piece, he must confront more than just the truth of the Beaumont-
he must face the man he might have been, the name he once carried, and the legacy he never asked to inherit.
Some truths wash ashore.
Some sink forever.
And some wait patiently in the deep...
until the Western Fox returns for them.