Washoe County Library System

"Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits"--Container.

Story of Kotono, a beautiful geisha who inherits a secretly-guarded sword and uses it to pursue Hyoe, the man who killed her father.

When their father, who has been absent for fifteen years, dies, his three adult daughters travel to to his funeral where they meet and bond quickly with their teenage half sister.

A group of young friends is rocked by the sudden suicide of one of their own and his subsequent ghostly reappearance in grainy computer and video images. More deaths follow as the world is slowly being drained of life.