Gears and Blades - Blades and Shadows, #2

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.