From the back cover: They were the darker side of the Samurai, merciless assassins bound by the blackest codes of honor and skilled in the deadliest martial arts, as lethal in the ways of love as in the rites of death… The story of Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of a woman he can’t forget and one he can’t control, between a past he can’t escape and a destiny he can’t avoid…