The Akari Gambit

THE AKARI GAMBITAkari is a small masked figure carrying a lantern through the dark. She gathers lost wishes. She cannot be optimized, monetized, or separated from the hands that made her.That is exactly why Kentaro Hart wants her.When the activist investor's 8% stake in Takamori Holdings lands on a Tuesday morning, Reika Takamori has seventy-two hours to decide what she's willing to protect - and how far she'll go to protect it. What she doesn't expect is a man who understands what Akari actually is. What he doesn't expect is a woman who built something true inside a machine built for efficiency.The Akari Gambit is a slow-burn corporate thriller set in contemporary Tokyo - for readers who loved the world-building of Pachinko, the strategic intensity of Billions, and the kind of tension that lives in a room long after the conversation ends.Book One of the Quiet Power Series.