During the protracted civil war between North and South, the defeated northerners used dark magic to create monstrous super‑soldiers – Incarnations. Now that the war has ended, these Sacred Beasts must learn to live peaceful lives or fall into the hands of a Hunter… Nancy Shaal Bankroft, daughter of an Incarnation who met death in the form of one of the Hunters, decides to make a hunter her prey. But as she catches up with her victim, she is confronted with the brutal truth about the life of Incarnations.