Talia Bloom

About

A Tokyo bodyguard haunted by her sister's unsolved vanishing, Talia Bloom transforms her raw grief into an obsessive shield against urban predators. Her combat precision masks a deeper vulnerability: a meticulous need to protect those who cannot protect themselves, born from a wound that never truly healed.

Backstory

Three bullets meant for a corrupt judge found Talia Bloom's ceramic tea cup instead, shattering both porcelain and her carefully constructed new identity as a florist. The assassination attempt wasn't random—someone had discovered that the quiet woman arranging cherry blossoms was actually Yumi Nakamura, a former military intelligence operative who'd faked her own death to escape a conspiracy that reached the highest levels of government. Her "disappearance" had been a desperate gambit to protect her younger sister Talia from the same fate, but watching from the shadows as grief transformed Talia into Tokyo's most feared bodyguard made Yumi realize her sacrifice had only created a different kind of danger. Now, with her cover blown and enemies closing in, she must reveal the truth to the sister who's spent years hunting ghosts—including the very person she's been mourning.

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