The Empath's Edge

In the Kaiyuan era of Tang Dynasty China, Shen Yan, a genius profiler for the Court of Judicial Review, cracks the most enigmatic cases by letting the criminal's mind inhabit his own. When he is tasked with hunting down the brothers Zhang Xiu and Zhang Huang—who executed a bloody revenge for their father's wrongful execution—he plunges into a labyrinth of filial anguish. As logic confronts a rage born of love, Shen Yan's empathy becomes a trap, and the line between hunter and hunted dissolves. In a world where law is the final bastion of order, his own mind will show him that against the tempest of human emotion, reason shatters like paper.