Smoke of Spirits

...rows of sunlit tombs lining green hillsides littered with cosmos...the laughs of children different and the same...dragon's whiskers reaching into a soft wet sky...a singsong language of buried meanings...smoky incense wafting in a neon-lit temple...

Bruised and battered, Lucy arrives in the city of Taipei, seeking only escape, a world away from That Night and what she did. She finds herself mired in a land of strangeness - of alien sounds, faces, smells, shapes. She meets Carlos, a hostile Spaniard, Anand, a septuagenarian Buddhist, and Rashnid, an Indian biker. But it is the island of her refuge that reaches deepest into her heart. As the curtain draws back, magic unfurls. Does she dare to love again?