Escorting recently-dead souls through the Eighteen Hells of the bardo to be reincarnated is never an easy job. Hungry ghosts, demons, and malignant demigods are everywhere, dangerous, and in a realm of illusion, nothing you see or hear can be trusted. The denizens of the bardo sometimes have convoluted, and devious secret agendas — as spiritual warrior Sam Kane finds out the hard way ...