Lady of the Shadows

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Reads 26
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Parts 2
Time 32m

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"She was a criminal, but her heart was set on a king."

Life has not been kind to Kimura Asaki. Born in poverty near the outskirts of the war-torn Miyazaki empire, she watched the one life she's ever known be ripped away from her. But when the notorious Tokugawa clan extended its shadowy hands toward her with a promise to give her everything she never had, the young Asaki had found herself deep within the heart of the crime syndicate.

Now as the Tokugawa clan's most prolific assassin, Asaki may have finally met her match when she is given her biggest assignment yet: the assassination of the faceless Phantom King.All Rights Reserved

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