A new generation faces its own challenges in the world the
Change has made.
Princess Órlaith, heir to Rudi Mackenzie, Artos the First,
High King of Montival, now wields the Sword of the Lady—and
faces a new enemy. Fortunately, she also has a new ally in
Reiko, Empress of Japan, who has been pursued to America by
a conquering army from Asia.
To combat their mutual foe, Órlaith and Reiko embark on a
quest to find the fabled Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, the
Grass-Cutting Sword, one of the three great treasures of the
Japanese Imperial House. But dreams have revealed that the
road to Kusanagi lies through the meganecropolis of the City
of Angels, the greatest and most perilous of the dead
cities...and beyond it, to a castle in the fearful Valley of
Death. And their relentless enemy will stop at nothing to
prevent them from succeeding.
For across the Pacific, the great arc of land that stretches
from the dark kingdom of Korea to the realm of Capricornia
in Australia is threatened by war. Now all the survivors of
the Change must choose sides....