Enter the exotic, violent, macabre world of acclaimed author Jessica Amanda Salmonson. A world where all reality hangs by... A Silver Thread of Madness. Where a half-witted genius, abandoned at birth, searches for his past identity and collides with his terrifying destiny. Where a young girl's ultimate obsession for samurai movies becomes the ultimate ticket to death. And where demons dance with saints, while sanity falls prey to a woman's sword....