Nobody ever told June Kato that babysitting could be such hard work... As a world-class neurosurgeon, June is used to dealing with high-pressure situations. But when a trio of violent thugs invade her home while her four-year-old nieces are staying over, nap time suddenly takes on a whole new meaning. A thrill-ride from start to finish.

How busy can a person get? For Doctor June Kato, not busy enough. June is one of LA's most respected neurosurgeons, and also a top fashion model. What she doesn't realize is she will soon become the city's busiest detective. A new Japanese department store is opening in Los Angeles, and has plans for an advertising campaign photo shoot to highlight their top notch kimono. When plans run afoul, June invites the crew to use her home garden as the photo venue, a treasure her grandfather built in the hills above the city. But a problem crops up when a young woman in wedding kimono is found in the garden tea house—and she isn't a model. June knows a thing or two about seppuku, the old fashioned Japanese way of suicide, and gives the investigating detective a primer in the subject. Soon her peaceful garden is turned into a beehive of police and crime scene technicians. It isn't long before she goes from innnocent bystander to Suspect Number One in the investigation. With each passing day more incriminating evidence turns up and the suspicions grow deeper. The week passes while she spends her days at the hospital and her evenings in the garden, perfecting it for the photo shoot scheduled for only a few days away. On top of that she must prepare herself for one of her most important fashion shoots of her waning career. But does she have the time to chase clues and criminals during one of her most exhausting weeks in ages? Or will she only be chasing her own tail?

Models, lingerie, and flirtatious glances. What could go wrong?June Kato thought she had it all - a successful career, a supportive family, good friends and a comfortable home. But when the mysterious stalker she thought was just an admirer turns out to have an obsession with her that has turned deadly, she must use all of her wits and strength to escape the grasp of the LA's top neurosurgeon before time runs out.

YAKUZA LOVER is the intense story of Japanese organized crime in Los Angeles. Young Asian women are forced into the fast-paced world of sex trade—with no way out. When murders of the women start, local police departments set up a task force to put an end to it. The sting operation needs one person who can get close to the yakuza head, someone beautiful enough to pull off the image of being a high-class call girl, and clever enough to out-wit organized crime gangsters. Meet June Kato, neurosurgeon, ex-fashion model...and stand-in yakuza girlfriend? Against her better judgment but with justice on her mind, June enters the dark world of Japanese organized crime. Masquerading as a classy call girl, and relying on her knowledge of contemporary Japanese culture, she agrees to visit an LA nightclub for one night, hoping to find inside information to help the police. Just as she gets in too deep, the cops abandon June, leaving her stranded in the bloody hands of gangsters. Desperate to save herself, she needs to climb, crawl, even kill her way to survival before time runs out.

Surgical patients are put in jeopardy when hospital administrators begin to meddle in medicine in this action thriller. Mysterious infections start without explanation in brain surgery patients in a prominent Los Angeles medical center. When deaths plague the Intensive Care Unit, the media grabs the story, the public loses faith, and the hospital is threatened with being closed. Called in to consult is Dr. June Kato. With enough trouble of her own, and only wanting to take a breather from her busy surgical practice, June agrees to look into the cause of deaths. Scraping the surface of the infections, she discovers there is more to the mini-plague than poor surgical technique. Someone is pulling strings behind the scenes, and those strings lead to murderous intent. When June finally puts her finger on the cause of so much trouble, she closes in. But it's what happens next that shocks her.

After trading the hustle and bustle of the city for a peaceful Hawaiian getaway, June Kato finds herself in the midst of a deadly murder investigation.The peaceful Big Island of Hawaii turns deadly when June witnesses a brutal murder in an isolated cove. When she reluctantly gives her witness statement, it sounds more like a confession to the police. With her life on the line, June must use her investigative skills to prove her innocence and uncover the truth behind the shocking crime. While danger lurks around every corner, she must risk it all if she wants to survive her stay in paradise.

A top politician is abducted from a summit meeting, with explosive circumstances. To defuse the situation, there is no one else to turn to except prominent neurosurgeon June Kato. June succumbs to the pressure to perform the most important surgery of her career, but it isn't until the last minute that she discovers how much pressure she can really handle. Secret Service, Marines, Navy nurses, and a civilian doctor cross paths and swords under the most difficult circumstances possible.

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During the Warring Period of Feudal Japan, Bugeisha Lady Junko and her sophisticated twin sister Lady Miko inherit their ancestral land from their samurai father. Caretakers of the surrounding peasant villages and farms, they must fend off the underhanded advances of a neighboring daimyo. While one of the sisters wants to turn over their property in exchange for a treasure, the other would rather fight for their rightful ownership. With cunning and with sword, they battle the ghosts of their family's past and the power of the present. But who will live to see the future? Often dark, this story is full of intrigue and deception.