"The grisly murders were just the beginning. Dean Campbell, ex-cop and clairvoyant, was sent to investigate. He was with the Dirk & Steele Detective Agency, that global association of more-than-human men and women who quietly fought for good in a world of fear and loathing. Shapeshifters, psychics and other paranormals, Dean and his peers were devoted to protecting life. But there were those who lived to destroy, as was becoming all too clear. In Taipei, he found a shocking truth. The remains of those burned-alive men and women, those bits of bone and ash, revealed a pattern far more deadly than any he had foreseen, a pattern heralding immortal evil. Someone knew Dean's secret, the secrets of his friends. And they knew more--of a power that could change the world, that was impossible to escape, and of a woman who could complete him: Mirabelle Lee, the childhood sweetheart he'd once thought dead. Now, all that remained was blinding light and searing pain, potent passion and a purifying fire. And beneath it all was...the red heart of Jade."--Back cover.