Li-lin’s journey is different in this story, and the title is clever, playing on her lack of face with her father as well as the actual girl with no face. But who is behind the spell, and why, will take her on a perilous journey deep into a dangerous world of ghosts and spirits. Li-lin suspects Gong Tau, a dirty and primitive form of dark magic. specifically by flowers growing out of her nose and mouth. The nine-year-old has died from suffocation.
Using only her martial arts training, spiritual magic, a sword made from peachwood, and the walking, talking spirit of a human eye, Li-lin stands alone to defend her immigrant community from supernatural threats.īut when the body of a young girl is brought to the deadhouse Li-lin oversees for a local group of gangsters, she faces her most bewildering-and potentially dangerous-assignment yet.
San Francisco’s cobblestone streets are haunted, but Chinatown has an unlikely protector in a young Daoist priestess named Li-lin.
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