Astell Jones did not know what she had signed up for when she agreed to pay off her boyfriend's debts. She had no idea he had sold her to the mob. Now here she was in the depths of the darkness with no way out. The ruthless leader of the group, Jungup kept her at his side, but never touched her. Instead he made threats to give her to his men if she ever got out of line. Treated as a slave and forced to work at the hostess bar in the red light district of Shinjuku, Japan, she finds a tiny solace in the cold kindness of Bang Youngguk, the right hand of Jungup. Astell struggles through life in the shadows and searches for some source of light to guide her out. On her left arm is a black rose tattoo, marking her as Jungup's. Kurohana is what they called her. Trapped is what she called herself.