Ben Midland is the bestselling author of 'The Sacred Mirror'.
When an priest of the Ise-jingu shrine in Ise, Japan is found dead in his room, Kokugakuin University Shinto professor William Sandwell is taken by police from his work upon the finding of his name on the death poem, written by the priest. A symbol, carved onto the body leads to a robbery of Japan’s most important myth-surrounded Imperial relic.
Joining him in his adventure through Japan is a gifted half Japanese, half English archeoligist, Catherine Yamazaki. Together, they discover a trail of evidence, hidden in the Inner Sanctuary of the shrine that leads to the theft of the relic that leds to the unveiling of Japan’s best secret.