It’s the season of war.

As the plum blossom winds herald springtime in the Empire of Wa, Initiate Brother Shuyun, spiritual advisor to Lord Shonto, the army governor of the northernmost province of Seh, receives a shocking message in the barbarian lands. The massive army from the Golden Khan can be poised at their border. Pressured to retreat south, Lord Shonto is usually caught between the pursuing barbarian hordes and his personal hostile emperor’s Imperial Military.

Meanwhile, the stunning young Lady Nishima once again becomes involved with court intrigue as well as in an unhealthy romantic liaison.

Even as this trap closes about Shonto and his allies, Sibling Shuyun faces an emergency of his very own. For in the same scroll that warned of the invasion was a sacred udumbara blossom, a sign his order provides awaited for a thousand years, a sign that the fantastic Teacher offers finally been reborn. And today it could fall to 1 young monk with outstanding powers to save lots of his empire.