They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but for Terri Montegard, it's a death warrant.

Someone is trying to kill Terri Montegard and she doesn't know why. Injured and grieving after an explosion in Kamakura, Japan, A bomb blast that left Sara Ashi, her half sister and Cosar Mentari Sara's fiancé dead.

Now Terri is running for her life. With only her wits, and the timely intervention of the Goddess Amaterasu, she must find out who wants her dead. But running for her life is not the only complication soon enough the one man that even the Yakuza clans fear to speak of turns up at Terri's doorstep with the worse news possible. He's been hired to kill her. Called the Kage Oni or Shadow Demon he's been hired by a powerful Yakuza clan to eliminate her.

Instead of killing Terri the Kage Oni has vowed to protect her from the man who hired him instead. Can Terri trust a man who claims to be the one hired to kill her but is offering to watch her back? Or can she fight her own growing emotions for someone who might be the one to kill her in the end?

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