Tokiro, the Yokai

Humanity spent generations learning to fear the yokai. Now, one grieving boy may be its last hope.

Decades after creatures from another dimension nearly destroyed civilization, humanity has begun to rebuild. The survivors have learned to live with the scars of the Yokai War-and with the knowledge that the monsters were not simply creatures to be destroyed. The yokai became both feared and essential to humanity's survival.

Tokiro is thirteen years old and would rather remain a kid for as long as possible. He spends his days with his closest friends, telling stories, playing games, and imagining what it would be like to possess the powers of the legendary yokai.

Then the monsters return.

When a new invasion shatters Tokiro's world and takes away the people he loves, the childhood games are over. Grief and trauma awaken something inside him-something that changes him forever.

Now Tokiro must confront a terrifying truth: he is becoming one of the creatures humanity has spent decades learning to fear.

But Tokiro isn't the only one reaching for the power of the yokai.

Mason, a survivor of the old war, believes the strange residue left behind by the creatures could give humanity a better future. He dreams of restoring the comforts and possibilities lost when the world nearly ended. Yet his experiments are taking him into places no human was meant to go, and something on the other side of the vortex has noticed him.

As old secrets resurface and the boundaries between human and yokai begin to blur, Tokiro finds himself caught between grief, responsibility, and a power he barely understands.

Tokiro, the Yokai is a dark fantasy horror novel of grief, transformation, family, and survival-where the monsters are real, the past refuses to stay buried, and hope may come from the last place anyone would think to look.