Akari Sato has agreed to come home, for this year's Shogatsu (New Year) on one account. Her family has been trying to persuade her to come back for years. Akari's work in America has her life in its firm hold. Shogatsu was supposed to be a festival of happiness and prosperity. Akari had exactly everything planned out to past this year's Shogatsu until her ex came knocking on her door, Takashi Yoshida. A story of self-love, a journey of discovering who she is, Shogatsu does have its effects on people.

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He crawls on top of me. I gulp loudly as his weight settles between my legs. My mind was screaming danger, alarm bells ringing in my head. but my body seemed to betray me, inching closer to him. His lips started exploring my neck, and as he sensed my response, I could feel the smug grin against my throat. "When did you become so eager, love?" he teased. In Verita, humans are nothing but playthings to their masters, the vampires. In the middle of the night, that was when Roseline was stolen away from her family to become a bride in a foreign palace. But not just any bride, the high lord vampire's bride. Victoria was not losing any more of her family members. Meeting unexpected help, she will do anything to bring her little sister back and protect her at all costs against the bloodthirsty monsters that have taken her.

Abandoned less than three years old, Zashia roamed the streets until she was brought into the assassin's guild. Trained at a young age in the art of killing, she would stop at nothing to achieve what she wanted: to take revenge on those who wronged her. Kicked out of the army and brought up by the Minister of the West, the Wolf never found that she fit in anywhere, being too wild for the courts, being too courteous for the wild. Not until she met Zashia. A notorious leader built her life up from the ground, into a general of the Guild of Assasins. To prove themselves worthy, they must take on a task more daunting than ever. Three souls brought together by fate, against the world that abandoned them.