The Yakuza's Bride (The Syndicate’s Price #13)

My father sold me to the most dangerous man in Tokyo.

I was living a quiet, safe life in Boston, working as a medical translator and keeping my head down. That all shattered the night three armed men picked the lock to my apartment. They didn’t come to kill me. They came to collect.

My estranged CEO father defaulted on a massive underworld loan, and to cover his losses, he signed a private criminal guarantee using his only daughter as collateral.

Enter Kenji Tatsuya.

He is the oyabun of the Kurokawa-kai syndicate. He is terrifying, heavily tattooed, and commands a shadow empire. When rival factions threatened to buy my debt, Kenji didn’t just pay it off—he flew across the world to claim me himself.

Trapped in his sky-high Tokyo penthouse, I expected a brutal captor.

Instead, I found a man who offers me warm tea, respects my boundaries, and promises that no one on earth will ever touch me but him.

Kenji is patient, dangerously protective, and haunted by the tragic loss of his first wife six years ago.

But the syndicate war is far from over. A rival boss wants to tear Kenji’s empire apart, and he sees me as the ultimate leverage.

Kenji has built a fortress to keep me safe, but as the bullets start flying and betrayal strikes from within, I have to decide if I’m a captive waiting for an exit—or a woman ready to stand beside her protector.

The Yakuza’s Bride is a gripping, slow-burn to high-heat mafia romance packed with suspense, undeniable chemistry, and a fiercely possessive alpha who will burn the city to the ground for the woman he loves.