Across the Nightingale Floor

Takeo is the only survivor when a brutal massacre wipes out his village. That day he cheats death, but his life will never be his own again.

Rescued, then adopted, by the mysterious Lord Otori Shigeru, Takeo starts a new life as heir to the Otori clan. But a sinister organization called The Tribe claims him as their own and has dark plans for his future. For Takeo has incredible magical powers — he can make himself invisible, he can be in two place at once, he hears what other people cannot. These skills make him the perfect assassin — a deadly weapon for The Tribe.

But before Takeo will pledge his life to them he must make a dangerous journey of revenge. There is no place for the passion of first love — but when Takeo meets the beautiful, forbidden Kaede, he knows that he can never give her up…