Books published by Chad Valentine

I am where I am and there's nowhere else I can be.A young man, Martin, tells himself this every day as he takes the train to work. The newest teacher at a private Eikaiwa-an English Language school in the secluded Toyama Prefecture of Japan-Martin spends his days wallowing in the bottom rung of a rigid and unforgiving corporate culture. After one particularly bad day at work, Martin has a late-night encounter with Shimodoi, a foul-mouthed teenage store clerk. Soon after, strange things begin occurring, and Martin finds himself at the intersection of the reality he thought he knew, and a supernatural force that he never dared to imagine. Aided by allies both mundane and bizarre, he begins to peel back the layers of a story others have tried desperately to forget.