When Lisa Shan is accused of stealing a shipment of priceless artifacts from the Seattle Asian Art Museum where she works Solomon Castostrani, with a sacred duty to protect the Shan family line, has no choice but to try and exonerate her. He recruits the golem lawyer, David Clay and his young assistant, Charles Samuel Kress to represent her. They must discover how the robbery is connected to the Russian mafia, a string of grisly animal attacks and an ancient Chinese scroll said to control a Jade-Eyed Demon.