The City of Spirits

The City of Spirits is the third novel in the Empire of the Sun and Moon series by Rob Hobart published in 2018. It is XX chapters long, and contains 238,000 words. The book continues the epic tale of samurai fantasy versus an outside evil as well and within.

Blurb
The forces of Dakkurru grow stronger both inside and outside the Empire of the Sun and Moon. In the Jade Dragon Clan, the corrupted High Lord Ryu Noboru gathers the Cult of the Mask and institutes a reign of terror, while in the far north the six remaining Demons prepare sinister new human weapons, forged from pain and cruelty. In the wake of a miraculous victory at the Battle of Yotsukado, High Lord Ookami Akira battles to reunite the Wolf Clan, confronting treacherous nobles, bloody sieges, and ruthless assassins. Meanwhile his estranged wife Lady Kaede must take control of the Wolf Clan's politics, lest everything Akira has won in combat be lost in the courts. Hope may lie in an alliance between the Wolf Clan's samurai and the strange spirit-creatures called the Aelfynn, but at what price? Magistrate Kobayashi Mitsui and his comrades, mourning the death of a beloved comrade, struggle to find a way to restart their investigation of the Cult of the Mask even as they find themselves ensnared by the Wolf Clan's internal politics. And the swordsman named Kenji faces the mystery of what it truly means to be the Sword of Amatsu in a world that the Sun Goddess has seemingly abandoned.