The Night of Baba Yaga

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A fierce mixed-race fighter is hired to protect a yakuza princess, and what begins as a bodyguard assignment becomes something far more dangerous — a queer love story set against the backdrop of organized crime, where tenderness and violence occupy the same space and neither woman can afford to let her guard down. Otani writes an explosive thriller that borrows from Kill Bill and The Handmaiden without imitating either, finding its own register for stories about women whose strength is both their weapon and the thing that makes them targets. The action is visceral, the romance is earned, and the ending hits like a punch you didn't see coming. A queer thriller about two women who were never supposed to fall for each other — in a world that punishes both.