where river meets sea

Daneira Pang never asked for this life. It's a lonely path, and Aleksandr Volkov is one of her only reprieves in the constant life-and-death situations she lived through daily. And when he crashes into her house and announces that the Black Camellia has been sighted within the country, she's ecstatic. After all, they'd both been hunting the assassin for years, and that's also why she knew this wouldn't be easy.

There were only two reasons and two reasons alone why Aleksandr Volkov had willingly accepted this mission and went into the eye of the storm: one, because one of the Black Camellia's first targets had been his childhood friend; and two, because Danna was in Melique, and damned if he was going to let her face the Black Camellia alone. The two agents would go to the end of the world to apprehend the assassin-and for each other.

(Book Two of The Lady Kuroki's School for Girls trilogy)