A dragon magical woman in contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown Emiko Soong John Wick story belongs to one of the world's eight prominent magical families. But Emiko never needed magic. Because she is the Sword of the Soong Clan. Or so she was. Until he drowns in blood in the middle of a market in China, surrounded by corpses and the smell of blood and human waste as a deadly perfume. The Peking Butcher now lives a quiet life in San Francisco, importing antiques. But when a shinigami, himself a god of death, summons a family's blood debt, Emiko must save the Ebony Gate, which holds the hungry ghosts of the Yomi underworld. Or she loses her soul as an anchor. What else is a retired assassin to do but save the City by the Bay from the army of the dead?
