CRIMSON VOW (紅の誓い) |
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She arrived in Tokyo expecting family. What she found was a cage with beautiful bones.
Eighteen-year-old Lydia Hamada has spent her whole life existing between categories, never quite belonging anywhere. When a one-way ticket brings her to Japan, she walks into something worse than displacement: a transaction. Her stepfather's debts have been settled with her body, and a powerful yakuza heir is waiting to collect.
She was not supposed to fall in love. She was not supposed to find someone who saw her completely and chose her anyway. And the boy she loves was not supposed to pay the price he pays.
Now Lydia is trapped inside a gilded nightmare of surveillance, sedation, and systematic control, performing obedience while building something no one is supposed to see. She has one chance. One network of quietly terrified people making small choices that add up. One man who broke his contract to stand between her and the worst of it.
And a rage she has learned to compress into patience.
Bride Price is a slow-burn dark romance set in Tokyo, centering a Black and Japanese protagonist in an interracial love story that does not flinch from the cost of what love means in a world that has decided you belong to someone else.
Mature themes. Explicit content. Part One: The Fall.
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