She’s the illegitimate daughter of a powerful yakuza leader and a prostitute, raised in the shadows of a violent world. With only a partial payout from her estranged father, who recently died in a "gang war," her future feels uncertain. Her half-brother, locked away for life, can offer no help. In search of a new beginning, she returns to her mother’s homeland overseas, hoping to find purpose and a sense of self. There, she meets a monk—a man who seems different from the peaceful figures she imagined. Like her, he is the son of a prostitute, his father a drunkard whose fists solved every problem. Desperate to escape his family’s violent legacy, he turned to the monastic life, but his inner demons are harder to escape than he ever realized. When he crosses paths with her, a fiery, rebellious woman who challenges everything he thought he knew about honor and life, he’s torn. What he believed would be a lesson in discipline becomes his greatest temptation. She’s everything he’s been taught to avoid, yet everything he desires. As their paths intertwine, she pulls him deeper into a dangerous world of forbidden longing, leading him down a path he never intended—a path that might destroy them both. *** This book is part of the Mated to the Monster multi-author monster romance series. All books can be read as standalones.