My Tentative Name

Our protagonist awakes in a house he doesn't know—in fact, not only does he not know where he is, he doesn't know <i>who</i> he is. What he does know is that this unfamiliar house is empty, save for the body (and head) of a decapitated woman—a stranger, he thinks. He’s rescued by a woman, Shio, who calls him "Iori"...but is that who he really is? And when she helps him hide the body without batting an eye, telling him to trust her...can he? <i>Should</i> he?

You can land a boyfriend through cold-blooded murder these days, but is it enough to keep one? Naderu A.K.A. Shio's happily-ever-after faces a brand-new threat in the form of Kei, a high school girl crushing on our antiheroine's hijacked boyfriend so hard that she might as well be wearing a neon sign. Naderu responds to this danger with logic and reason: by plotting to murder her. She lures the lovestruck teen with honeyed words, but as she raises her knife to deal the killing blow, that's... when things get weird. Mad Donkey, the dangerous criminal organization after her beloved Iori, reveals that her Romeo isn't as innocent as he appears. Plus, his past is far darker than she could ever know...

Determined to find the whereabouts of her missing "Boyfriend," Naderu (her tentative name) infiltrates the Mad Donkeys, a criminal organization tied to Iori's questionable past. But immediately after joining their ranks, she's thrown into an abandoned hospital to babysit a creepy hacker wunderkind named Mary, who offers to help her escape. She only has to play a little game... A little game with a big catch.Meanwhile, Kei, the innocent high schooler caught in the crossfire, takes it upon herself to find Iori alone—until another Mad Donkey catches her scent. Bound, restrained, and with no hope for help, Kei can only watch with horror as she faces her worst nightmare... In different places and under different circumstances, both women realize that some worlds are better left untouched.

I loved him to the point of madness. Before he came into my life, I had nothing. I lived each day of my life as nothing more than a hollow husk. But that all changed when I met him. I learned what it meant to love, and I learned what it felt like to live. I decided that I would love him through to the very end no matter what I had to do– even if that meant murder. And yet.... the magic spell that had been cast over him can't last forever. Just who will be the one to bleed out in the end? This thrilling tale of psychological horror and one woman's quest to claim her beloved all for herself all comes to its heart-pounding conclusion here.