Randall Lee isn't your typical acupuncturist... A beautiful young woman, dead, her body unmarked, her skin a peculiar shade of blue... A bizarre, ritualistic crime scene... And an unlikely hero... When a young woman is murdered in a seedy massage parlor near his neighborhood, the police recruit Randall Lee - an American acupuncturist and Tai Chi master - as a translator and expert in Chinese culture, to assist in the investigation. When Lee discovers that the murderer is an expert in a forbidden Chinese martial art - the dark mirror to his own healing practices - he must join in the hunt for the killer to escape his own inner demons... ...and save the woman he loves.