Nana Umino Knihy

Azamis Plan ist aufgegangen: Unter den wachsamen Augen von Kirishima ist es ihm gelungen, Yoshino zu entführen. Doch anstatt eine gewöhnliche Lösegeldforderung zu stellen, verfolgt Azami ein düsteres Ziel: den Tod von Yoshinos Großvater. Um sein Vorhaben in die Tat umzusetzen, soll sich Yoshino nun mit Azami verloben – andernfalls wird auch sie das Zeitliche segnen! Doch die tapfere Schülerin denkt gar nicht daran, sich dem Willen ihres Entführers zu beugen. In letzter Sekunde gelingt es Kirishima, Yoshino aus dieser verzwickten Lage zu befreien – und ist kurz darauf selbst spurlos verschwunden …

In this critically acclaimed romantic crime drama, a yakuza granddaughter is sent from Osaka to marry the grandson of a rival family in Tokyo! Yoshino grew up the sheltered yakuza princess of the largest crime family in Osaka, the Somei. Due to her resting bitch face and dangerous family, no man has ever approached her. When her grandfather signs a truce with the Tokyo-based Miyama crime family, he offers her up as a truce bride to the Miyama leader's grandson! Kirishima Miyama is popular, charming, and seems totally normal. But behind his smile is a violent sadomasochist who thirsts for her dominance even more when she impresses him with her moxie! Even though she knows how bad yakuza can be, she's stunned by Miyama's viciousness. She can't turn him down with the East-West peace treaty on the line...so instead she steels herself to play ball!

Self-serving adults and broken dreams push a teenage boy trapped in a dead-end town closer and closer toward the abyss. Reiji’s life is as miserable as the small town he can’t escape. The most interesting thing that’s ever happened there is a double suicide down by the river. Does Reiji have any power over his fate, or will he too fall into the abyss? Reiji’s mother is checked out, he’s stuck caring for his grandmother with dementia, and his childhood friend treats him like a lackey. Then beautiful, big-city pop star Nagi miraculously shows up working the counter at the local convenience store. Reiji is starstruck. When she offers him the ultimate way out of his claustrophobic existence, will he succumb to temptation…?