SYPNOSIS

THE DEADLIEST ASSASSIN IN THE KNOWN WORLD HAS JUST BEEN SPOTTED, AND THEY'RE NOT LETTING HER ESCAPE AGAIN.

When Aleksandr Volkov crashes into her house and announces that the Black Camellia has been sighted within the country, Daneira Pang isn't sure if she should thank or curse her luck. After all, they'd both been hunting the assassin for years, but if they fail... She'd prefer death, thank you very much. She'd never asked for this life, but she'd never had a choice: this was her duty, and and duty was not something she could escape.

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. He'd already lost too many people in his life, he wasn't about to let Danna become the next one.

They'll have to work around the clock to stop the assassin before it's too late. After all, it wasn't just the fate of a nation lying in their hands. It was the fate of the damned world as they knew it. And neither of them wanted to be responsible for inciting a war that might just rip their whole world in half.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

AUTHOR'S NOTE

where river meets sea is book 2 of 3 in the lady kuroki's school for girls series, coming after the white fox, and is a spin-off/sequel to the sable sisters series, but it can be read as a stand-alone. this series is the second in the silk and steel universe/chronicles.

the story takes place in a world based off our own, and i feel the need to clarify that the beliefs my characters display do not reflect my own.

y'all it's time for book four :)))))

PLEASE NOTE

this world is based closely off our real one, and this includes the history and politics of each country. while much of it remains similar, please note that it is not meant to be 100% accurate, and i have added, omitted and edited as i felt necessary, especially regarding topics i feel like i haven't done enough sufficient research to tackle/i do not believe i could portray accurately/i personally do not feel is necessary for my world. neither do i personally agree with all the "counterparts" of more modern political issues that the characters within this story believe in. hence, please do not go after me if you disagree with what my characters believe in!

another major part i changed in, is the titles/ranks of saian (chinese) characters. i've taken a heavy western influence for them, using the lord/lady of (location) template instead of the historically accurate chinese ones. one of the reasons for this is because the titles and ranks of ancient china were visibly explicitly for men (the chinese character for a baron is literally the character for 'male'), and i found it difficult to fit them into a story where many titled females exist. also, I'm taking inspiration mainly from the Qing dynasty, which has an extremely complicated ranking system, so it's very difficult to research.

as this is a story that heavily features espionage, the overlying arch of this entire series would involve a war between countries. hence, i've had no choice but to make one of the counterpart countries the general "enemy" of the story (melique). i do not view either the country it's based off or the people of the country poorly. i've done my best to mix multiple countries of various different cultures into one for melique in order to not offend anyone. currently, melique is geographically based off south american countries and inspired by meiji-era japan and french revolution and napoleonic-era france.

there is strong language and hints at explicit content within the story, though none of it is clearly shown. read at your own risk!

20/8/2021-12/10/2021

(daily updates)