Blades and Shadows

A Ninja Romance She thought she was bidding on a shy IT geek. She never expected the ninja hiding behind the glasses. Charlotte Barnes raises her paddle at a charity bachelor auction, expecting a harmless evening and a good story to tell later. What she wins instead is Diego Morales-known publicly as mild-mannered tech consultant Kiro Yoshida.Quiet. Observant. Impossible to read.What Charlotte doesn't know is that Kiro is deep undercover. His mission is simple: infiltrate a company, copy its proprietary software, and disappear without leaving a trace.No witnesses. No attachments. Then Charlotte notices him.Her curiosity pulls her closer to a world built on secrecy and shadow wars between rival ninja clans. The stolen data Kiro carries has already made him a target-and anyone too close to him becomes collateral damage. Including her.Now Kiro faces a choice he was never trained to make. Follow the orders of the clan that raised him… or protect the woman whose warmth cuts through the cold discipline of his life.Because in the ninja world, love is never just love. It's leverage. And someone is willing to kill for it.Steamy, suspenseful, and layered with secret identities, Bidding on the Geek blends espionage, romance, and deadly ninja politics into a story where falling in love may be the most dangerous move of all.

Fast cars. Hidden blades. A job that was never supposed to turn deadly. Ava Miller takes a temporary chauffeur job in Washington, D.C., hoping it will buy her a little stability-two weeks of driving, polite clients, and enough money to stay afloat. She doesn't expect to drive straight into a war.Hiraku of the Kōga Clan lives by discipline and steel. A trained ninja operating in the shadows, he survives by trusting no one outside his world. Until Ava.When her fearless driving pulls them out of a violent ambush, Hiraku realizes the woman behind the wheel is far more than a hired driver. She's quick-thinking, stubbornly brave-and now dangerously entangled in a conflict she was never meant to witness.With enemies closing in across Virginia and Washington, D.C., every safehouse becomes a risk and every mile of road a battlefield. Ava has seen how lethal Hiraku can be. Hiraku knows Ava is stronger than she appears. And with a powerful client caught in the crossfire, the only way either of them may survive is by trusting each other.But the closer they get, the harder it becomes to remember the rules that kept them alive. Because in a world ruled by steel and silence, love may be the most dangerous weapon of all.