Teaching English in Japan had always been a goal of Jamie's once he'd finished his university studies. But scoring a job in Kyoto was like a dream come true...right up until it wasn't.When asked to practice conversationalist English with a wealthy, older Kyoto businessman--Gou Kitayama--Jamie couldn't say no, and he quickly struck up a friendship with his new client. A friendship that slowly evolved into something more... something Jamie hadn't expected, nor intended to happen....

Yakuza Romance Starter BoxsetDangerous Lessons (The Yakuza and the English Teacher 1)Jamie had come to Kyoto to teach, not fall in love...and especially not with Gou Kitayama, head of the local yakuza.Deadly Game (Tokyo Nights 1)Get in... Get out... Stay alive. Easy right?Or it would've been if Hisato hadn't broken all the rules of an undercover assignment, and fallen in love with his target.Sagaki (T...

His world is a dangerous one. Even more so when his enemies remain shrouded in the shadows of their world and continue to threaten the lives of all those Gou holds dear to him.Like Jamie.But Jamie isn't prepared to remain sidelined and wants to take a more active role in the life that Gou leads...and that frightens Gou. He wants Jamie by his side, but he wants to keep Jamie safe too. And it might not be possible to have both.Honour. Family. Trust.Three words...

Hisato cheated death and found love.Now he's on the hardest undercover assignment of his life.Returning to life as a detective was never going to be easy for Hisato Shibata. Caught between two worlds, he needs to balance keeping Ogawa out of jail with still upholding the law. But with his partner's interest in Ogawa bordering on obsession… a dangerous one at that, the scales are teetering.Add in a couple of murders, some financial crimes, and a yakuza boss—or two—wh...

Get in. Get proof. Get out alive. Easy, right?All Hisato Shibata had ever wanted to be was a police officer, to work his way through the ranks like his father had. Wanted to be known as an officer who upheld the oaths he'd sworn and keep the streets of Tokyo free of men like Tatsuo Ogawa—Shinjuku Ward boss for the Yamashita Organisation. Going undercover had never been a part of his plans, but when his superiors put the assignment in front of him, he dutif...

Jun Sagaki had it easy, well as easy as things could be for a Yakuza. He oversaw a profitable area of Tokyo for the Imaida and looked on track to become the Boss. Eventually. One day in the distant future.And then he met Hisato Shibata and his whole world got turned upside down. The position he held, the respect he garnered taken from him along with his finger. But now he's paid his penance and the Shinjuku/Kabukicho area has been handed back to him, and everything should be headin...

1899, political tensions are rising with the emergence of the Boxer Movement in Northern China, straining ties between the Chinese Imperial Government and the Eight Nations with stakes in the country. As a Captain in the Royal Marines, Alfred Cartwright is deployed to Shanghai, where he discovers more than he'd dared to dream of – Love. Not even the struggles with language or the fear of reprisals if their relationship is found out, can stop Alfred from falling for the Chinese man...

Mitsui Takagi fled Tokyo before his professional reputation as a Shinjuku police detective could be tarnished by the revelation that his partner was corrupt. Not in the bribe-taking way either, but in a fucking-the-boss-of-the-Yamashita-Organisation kind of way.He'd thought coming north to Sapporo and working as a detective with the Hokkaido Prefecture Police would mean his life would get quieter… that there'd be less people wanting to kill him, and the stress wouldn't be stained i...

Snowmen were only the beginning…Mitsui had headed north to escape getting caught up in the yakuza conflict occurring in Tokyo, while also distancing himself from his corrupt partner in the Shinjuku Police. However, his first case in Sapporo had soon shown him that no matter where he went in Japan, it's criminals were just as active… And that he was no less susceptible to being drawn into their world than his former partner was. Love doesn't care about laws, it does...

Secrets have been revealed and the dangers that lie hidden in Gou's world are now known to Jamie. But even after experiencing that danger first-hand, he still promises to stay... a promise that Jamie soon begins to regret making.Kyoto's streets might be quiet...for now, but Gou's enemies haven't disappeared. And when Jamie is threatened once more by those behind the attack in Nara, he needs to decide whether to tell Gou about it or not.Decide whether to seek his lover's pro...

Xanth longed for a family of his own...Longed to be the one who fell pregnant...Except what Xanth wanted was nothing more than a faniciful dream, because Rhaetian knights fathered children, they didn't give birth to them.Or at least that's what Xanth thought, but a chance encounter with Ronan Moutram while at a tournament in the Kingdom of Suevia soon turns the Rhaetian knight's world on its head. A glimpse of a life he'd never thought possible. But after chasing Ro...

Love can be dark. It can be dangerous, deadly, and tainted.Chocolate and roses? They weren't the romantic sentiments expected of those who walked in this world of smoke and shadows. Takeshi Matsumoto didnt need them... didn't want them from the man he loved. But he didn't expect the explosions or the attempts on his life, either. It wasn't as though Yoshitake had gifted him with those life-threatening events, not when there were plenty of men already within the Shirokawa-g...