My Father The Yakuza: He was supposed to be dead. (Emily Watson #1)

Some fathers should stay buried.

In Tokyo, two people are about to collide in a reunion twenty-two years overdue. The daughter: driven and dangerous, a young American journalist who discovered years ago that her father isn't dead. Since then, Emily Watson has been preparing—learning the language, the shadows, and the ways to hunt a ghost in Tokyo. Everything to find the man her mother swore was gone. The father: brutal and haunted, a man who thought he'd buried his past along with his conscience. Jack Turner has prepared for nothing except forgetting.

But the yakuza forget nothing, and forgive even less. When Emily walks into Club Sazanami and locks eyes with Jack Turner—the father who should be dead—their connection triggers a chain of violence that will consume Tokyo. Hideki Sato, the sadistic heir who's been waiting twenty-two years for revenge, sees his opportunity. Emily's investigation draws blood. Jack's carefully constructed distance begins to crack.

And then Emily discovers the truth about why her mother really lied. About what Jack did. About what's in her blood.
Who wants Jack Turner destroyed? And what will Emily become when she learns she's more like him than she ever imagined?

Set in Kabukicho's neon-lit underworld, My Father, the Yakuza is a dark, twisty thriller about deadly secrets, inherited violence, and the monsters we become.