The Fox Wife

A detective is searching for the identity of a dead woman, while a grieving fox is hunting for the man who killed her baby. As each focuses on their own pursuit, they close in relentlessly on each other and on a present that reaches back into a misty past that neither wants to remember but can’t avoid. When her aging mistress turns out to be his childhood love, her desire for revenge sets off a chain of deaths that threatens to burn them all to cinders. This bittersweet tale of magical realism and historical fantasy blends a detective story with a mythic fever dream of fox spirits, dying magic, lost love and found hope, and burgeoning revolution, as too much magic interferes in the lives of seemingly ordinary people who have no defenses against the chaos agents running rampant in their midst.