[A WATTPAD FEATURED STORY AND ON THE WATTY'S 2018 LONGLIST] "As if I'm dreaming, his lips touch mine. It's awkward, with my head turned to the side and his beside mine, but when his hand comes up to hold my jaw, it becomes all too easy to kiss him back." Cover: @MuriLexa Copyright © 2019 by Sooaura

"If I reach for her, will she steady me... or will I be the one who ruins her?" "If I let myself want her, will she stay... or will I be the reason she can't?" Kana was never meant to be his sheath. She was never meant to bleed for Shion's future. Okita Shion, heir to a yakuza legacy soaked in blood, must choose between inheritance and the woman who showed him what normalcy felt like; and where Emori Kana, an ordinary civilian, learned that survival in the underworld did not always mean fighting - sometimes it meant standing still, and letting the storm decide who it will spare. A Japanese Psychological Crime Romance, featuring a slow-burn descent into power, grief, love, and devotion. This is a tragic love story set within the gokudo (yakuza) world, where deep-seated hierarchies, rigid etiquette, and entrenched traditions and cultures intertwine with crime, leaving love to struggle in between duty and ruin. (Yakuza no Iro = The Colours of the Yakuza)