THE HOUSE

For twenty-seven years, Mariko has been the perfect weapon.
Raised by the man she calls Ojiisan, she was taught that loyalty is everything, questions are weakness, and every target deserves to die. She has never failed an assignment. Never doubted an order. Never imagined a life beyond the next contract.
Until she is sent to kill Malcolm Holloway.
Owner of an exclusive nightclub with ties no one can trace, Malcom is unlike anyone Mariko has ever hunted. Instead of running from her, he sees through her carefully crafted lies and challenges everything she's been taught to believe. He knows things he shouldn't. He asks questions she can't answer. And before she can pull the trigger, he leaves her with a single, terrifying thought:
What if the only man she ever trusted built her life on lies?
Unable to walk away, Mariko becomes consumed by the mystery surrounding Malcolm. What begins as an assignment turns into an obsession, drawing her deeper into a dangerous search for the truth about her past, her family, and the organization that turned her into a killer.
When the answers finally come, they destroy everything.
Forced to choose between the man who raised her and the truth she's spent her life avoiding, Mariko abandons the only home she's ever known and becomes the hunted instead of the hunter.
But freedom comes with a price.
As she travels the world, Mariko discovers she was never the only woman forged into a weapon. One by one, she finds survivors-women betrayed, trafficked, trained, and discarded by the people who claimed to own them. Refusing to let another woman live the life she escaped, Mariko offers them something none of them have ever been given:
A choice. A home. A family.
Together, they build The House-a secret sisterhood hidden behind legitimate businesses, bound by loyalty instead of fear, and united by one unbreakable promise:
No sister will ever stand alone again.
But some ghosts refuse to stay buried.
And some obsessions...
never truly end.