Thank you @booksforwardpr for a copy of The Ninja’s Blade by Tori Eldridge. The second in the Lily Wong thriller series is available today.

Content warnings for sexual abuse, kidnapping, drug use, grooming, violence and sex trafficking.

The Ninja’s Blade opens starts with main character Lily Wong seeing an unlikely pair of young adults talking, two girls who would never be friends. One leads the other to a car driven by a handsome older man and they leave together. This coupled by the fact that Lily was recently hired to find a runaway, leads her to the world of sex trafficking.
The Ninja’s Blade is the second in a series but I haven’t read the first and I managed to follow along. It did seem like the events of the first book had a significant effect on Lily in this book though, so I did feel like I missed out on some character development because of that. Lily is a badass woman though, working as an investigator for a women’s shelter and using her fighting skills to help while trying to impress her parents and maybe start dating.