by Akil Victor (Author)
Linda Asami is beautiful, cunning, and ruthless. The daughter of Japanese nobility whose deep knowledge and love for her country leads her into a secret governmental service. A service that required her to be just as deadly as she was sexy. Extracting information and issuing murder if necessarily fit. Then, one assignment in particular involving an African American businessman and senator named Malcom Johnstone threw everything into question. She found herself pregnant and falling for a man she was instructed to kill. A murder she had every intention of carrying out until he proposed to her under the most dire circumstances and made her realize that a life without love was not a life worth living. Yet, her employers had different plans in mind. Which leads Linda to find herself on the wrong side of the gun and sword with Malcom perishing the same. After being made into a fugitive and forced into exile for fear of her life and the child she carried within, Linda finds herself deep in rural Japan giving birth to a love child she would name Wantonda. From the moment she learned how to walk and so forth, Wantonda is educated, taught hard work, and multiple forms of martial arts. However it is through a love of books and seldom views of television that she develops a desire to see the United States. Not knowing that her dream for America would come true in the form of a nightmare when her mother's whereabouts are discovered by the same organization she was once a top operative of. At the age of ten, Wantonda's training would be put to the test and innocence shattered as she is on hand to fight for her life and that of her mother's in the wake of multiple murders that would see them flee for the shores of Los Angeles. It is in the streets of L.A. that Wantonda would grow, learn the ways of the world, discover who she is and realize that her mother was right: No matter where they'd go, they'd never be safe. She was born with a set fate and as more bloodshed and loss occurs, she would come to realize that the only path awaiting her is the path of vengeance.