When a new game shop opens in town, it threatens to put Grandfather Mutou out of business, and even worse, the owners want to put Yugi and his grandfather completely out of the picture when the owner's son, Ryuji Otagi, challenges Yugi to a dragons and monsters game he must play without Yu-gi-oh's help.
In the final round before the fight with Pegasus, Yugi faces Mai Kujaku and her harpies' pet dragon, while Jonouchi fights "Bandit" Keith Howard, America's most unscrupulous gamer, whose deck is loaded with six-guns and slot machines.
Jonah, a young thief, and his friends and Tersias, a twelve-year-old boy who channels prophesies, become embroiled in the machinations of a magician, a politician, and a false prophet, as well as in the magic of a strange alabaster box.
When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing - even skinjacking - to break free.
"Helen needed a body to be with her beloved and Jenny needed to escape from hers before her spirit was broken. It was wicked, borrowing it, but love drives even the gentlest soul to desperate acts"--.
Hikaru Shindo, who stumbled across a haunted Go board and lives with the spirit of a master player, Fujiwara-no-Sai, in his mind, refuses to let Sai play, which causes the inner coach to vanish, leaving Hikaru to fend for himself.
Inexplicable things have been happening to Manhattan socialite Mary since she awoke on her seventeenth birthday, and by the end of the day she has been killed, inhabited the bodies of seven people close to her, and faced some ugly truths about herself.
When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where, although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.
Melanie, whose mind has been almost completely taken over by an alien named Wanderer, convinces the alien to search for her lost lover, who fled the extraterrestrial invasion, and tries to find a way in which she and Wanderer can coexist.
