Island Volume 5 GN

Tokyopop Manga
Island Volume 5 Graphic Novel

Introduction: Cheju Island is a tourist spot off the coast of Korea. With 45 giant Tolharubang statues erected around the island, Cheju is a land out of time. Like the Moai of Easter Island, the origins of the Tolharubangs remain shrouded in mystery. But locals believe the statues are guardians from evil spirits - demons that devour human souls.
Miho has no time for superstitions. She came to Cheju Island to begin a new life and work as a teacher. But nothing prepared this rich daddy's girl - who's been coddled all her life - for what she finds upon her arrival - the body of a young woman, mauled almost beyond recognition. Old myths and superstitions prove deadly and real in a killer who is something less than human.
No Tolharubang can save her, and Miho escapes with her life only by virtue of help from the mysterious Pan. With a stone cold, icy stare, he walks among monsters with no fear, and kills with ease. A guardian of a different sort, maybe ... but, is he a hero or an even greater monster?
In a world where everything Miho knew to be true is false; where the shadows kill and demons walk the Earth ... she may ultimately learn that the purest evil resides in the heart of man.

This Volume's Story: When knowing the truth can cost you your life.
There's a new serial killer at work on Cheju Island, and his bold, public scavenger hunt of mysterious skulls is followed by massacre upon every new discovery. At each supernatural crime scene, the killer leaves a single clue: a gypsy fortune-telling card with a letter written on it. Interpol agents fail to track down the killer, so Miho Won -- the aristocratic rich girl-turned teacher -- decides to do a little sleuthing of her own. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes that this isn't just the work of a madman, but rather a much bigger conspiracy ... one whose perpetrators would kill to keep secret.