Kitsune-Tsuki Kitsune Tales #1
In feudal Japan, a warlord has engaged the onmyouji Tsurugu no Kiyomori, a practitioner of the mystic arts, to protect his new bride from the fox spirit rumored to be near. Tsurugu and the shadow-warrior Shishio Hitoshi face an impossible challenge in teasing out a shape-shifter in the warlord's household if such a creature is even present at all.The handsome mute twin servants belonging to Lady Kaede are certainly suspicious, but it is the beautiful and strong-willed lady herself who draws Shishio's mistrust. Tsurugu and Shishio must move carefully accusing the warlord's bride falsely would be death. But failing to identify the kitsune to the warlord is equally perilous, and there is more to discover. For an onmyouji knows secrets even the shadows do not....