<blockquote> <p> Beneath passion and purifying fire is . . . <i>The Red Heart of Jade</i> </p> </blockquote> <p> Dean Campbell can see and sense things that others cannot?an extraordinary ability that drew the ex-cop to the Dirk & Steele Detective Agency, a global association of more-than-human men and women. Dean and his peers?shapeshifters, psychics, and other paranormals?are dedicated to protecting life. But there are those who live for destruction. </p> <p> Now Dean's investigation into a series of unthinkable killings is calling him to Taipei, where a pattern is emerging that is more deadly than anything he could have foreseen. At the center is a power that could change the world . . . and the woman who can truly complete him: Mirabelle Lee, the girl Dean loved in his youth, the childhood sweetheart he once believed dead. Now that his heart has been reawakened, he will not lose her again?even as the forces of an immortal evil gather to destroy them and everything they love. </p>