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The Ninja Daughter

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An action-packed thriller about a Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja with family issues who fights the Los Angeles Ukrainian mob, sex traffickers, and her own family to save two desperate women and an innocent child.

After her sister is raped and murdered, Lily Wong dedicates her life and ninja skills to the protection of women. But her mission is complicated. Not only does she live above the Chinese restaurant owned by her Norwegian father and inspired by the recipes of her Chinese mother, but she has to hide her true self from her Hong Kong tiger mom, who is already disappointed at her less-than-feminine ways and who would be horrified if she knew what she had become.

But when a woman and her son she escorted safely to an abused women's shelter return home to dangerous consequences, Lily is forced to not only confront her family and her past but also team up with a mysterious―and very lethal―stranger to rescue them.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 23, 2019
      Set in Los Angeles, Eldridge’s wild ride of a first novel marries Kill Bill with Killing Eve. Lily Wong, who has secretly become a ninja, has dedicated herself to protecting women since her sister’s murder. First, she must stop a Ukrainian gangster, Dmitry Romanko, from abusing his wife and son, and return them to the safety of a shelter for abused women. Second, Lily takes on the enigmatic thug J Tran, who has created a scandal by publicly assaulting cocktail waitress Mia Mikkelson. Mia fears he’ll return to kill her. After Lily witnesses Tran fatally stab two men on a Koreatown street, she learns that the brazen killer hides a lot of secrets, including some that point to several more bodies, notably including 20-year-old Julie Stanton, the mayor’s goddaughter, who recently died in an apparent hiking accident. Lily eventually identifies a villain behind Julie’s death worse than any she’s previously encountered. Readers will want to see more of the feisty Lily. Eldridge expertly mines both domestic suspense and action thriller.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Natalie Naudus delivers this first installment in an exciting new series featuring Lily Wong, a martial arts expert who is dedicated to protecting abused women. Lily isn't your usual L.A. freelancer. Her father, descended from Norwegians, runs the family's Asian restaurant, while her elegant Chinese mother doesn't cook at all, and Lily, despite her heritage, turned to Japan to learn her fighting skills. Naudus believably renders a wide variety of accents, including Cantonese, Mandarin, Ukrainian, Norwegian, and Korean, as Lily gets herself into and out of trouble with L.A.'s underworld. Altering her tone and tempo, Naudus distinguishes between narrative and Lily's thoughts, and completely electrifies the fight scenes. Listeners beware: You'll have a craving for Asian takeout while awaiting Lily's next action-packed adventure. C.B.L. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

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