In his first year in Los Angeles, Angel, the vampire with a soul, came across an inter-dimensional hunter named Jhiera. The seductive woman was only trying to protect other females in her culture from being stripped of their emotions - intense feelings that gave them dominance over men. Angel fell victim to her heat, but Jhiera had to return to her own dimension.
Now she's back, and Angel is astonished to see Jhiera again . . . and to have the same feelings for her come rushing to the surface. But Jhiera's in LA on official business: She's on the hunt for a young woman who may be the key to unleashing an inter-dimensional war - a war led by a powerful sorcerer determined to free China's terra-cotta army of fierce samurai from their long imprisonment.
In Sunnydale, Buffy Summers is back from the dead and is casting about in her new life - as school counselor, guardian of Dawn, best friend, keeper of Spike's sanity, and, of course, as Slayer - hoping to find something, anything, that will give her back that feeling of fulfillment she deeply craves. A demonic army with a dragon at its head is so not what she needs right now . . .
