Bakuto
Osaka, in an age when honor was worth more than money and a man's word could still get him killed. Yuki Amakawa was raised to be perfect, the perfect daughter, the....
Osaka, in an age when honor was worth more than money and a man's word could still get him killed. Yuki Amakawa was raised to be perfect, the perfect daughter, the perfect fiancée, the perfect piece on her family's board. When the man she was promised to breaks her heart in the cruelest way possible, she does the one reckless thing she's never allowed herself: she runs, alone, into the night straight into the one place in the city where no one asks your name. There, across a card table, she meets a stranger everyone in the underworld knows by a single name: the Bakuto. He's never lost a hand in his life. He's never let anyone close enough to matter. Until her. Neither of them knows who the other really is. Neither of them knows that their families have been at war for twenty years, built on a lie neither side has ever uncovered or that falling for each other might be the most dangerous thing either of them has ever done. Some debts are paid in blood. Some are paid in love. Bakuto never loses, until he does...