Tokyo | Part One | The Yakuza Duology | Book One

EVELYN CARTER

I came to Tokyo to disappear. New York had already decided who I was supposed to be, every choice mapped out before I could make it. Here, I wanted something that belonged to me. My camera. My escape. My life.

Then I met him. Erin Yamamoto isn’t the kind of man you meet and forget. He moves like silence wrapped around violence, like something inevitable. A man who doesn’t just enter your life…he takes it, reshapes it, leaves his mark whether you survive him or not. I should have walked away the moment I realized what he was. But Tokyo doesn’t let you go once it claims you. And neither does he.

ERIN YAMAMOTO

She was never supposed to matter.

Evelyn Carter is chaos in a world that demands control, a risk I cannot afford. In my world, attachment is weakness, and weakness is punished without mercy. I was raised to inherit power built on blood, loyalty, and obedience. There is no space for desire. No space for her. And yet, I kept her. Now she stands at the center of something unforgiving—a war she doesn’t understand, with enemies that don’t forgive mistakes. Every decision I make pulls her deeper into a world that will devour her whole. If I keep her, I destroy her. If I let her go, I lose the only thing that has ever felt like mine.

CW and TW are available on the author's website. All editions include manga-style character art.