Blade of the Lotus
Bound by Ink. Chained by Blood.

Suki thought she buried her past beneath layers of black ink and Seattle rain.Living as a tattoo artist under a stolen identity, she built a quiet life far from the blood-soaked legacy she escaped. But when armed mercenaries storm her shop, the fragile world she created burns to ashes in a single night.Her only chance of survival arrives in the form of Ren Kaito—a cold, lethal Yakuza assassin bound by an ancient Blood Oath. Silent as a ghost and deadly as a blade, Ren was sent to return Suki to Tokyo. Back to the empire she ran from. Back to the family that betrayed her.Inside the glittering halls of the Katsuro dynasty, silk masks hide deadly secrets. Suki soon discovers a horrifying truth: she was never brought home to inherit power.She was brought back to be sacrificed.Now trapped between rival Yakuza factions, family betrayals, ritual bloodlines, and a forbidden attraction growing between hunter and prey, Suki and Ren must fight for more than survival.Because some scars are written in blood.And some destinies are carved in ink.Blade of the Lotus is a gripping Dark Yakuza Romance, packed with crime suspense, assassins, forbidden love, Japanese underworld intrigue, tattoo mythology, action, betrayal, and enemies-to-lovers tension.