Naomi Aoki

Biography

She would love to runaway to Japan or China and live there for a few years... but she can't. Instead she goes there in her books, hoping to drag the reader into a world they've never been to before.

Historical. Contemporary. Time offers no constraint to the stories she writes, happily dabbling in both so long as there is a happy ending.

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Books

Devotion
Series: Nagoya Crimes, Book 3. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 53,210. Language: English. Originally Published: April 11, 2023 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General, Fiction » Romance » Polyamory, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Bisexual
Their love might've started with a deception... It might've deviated from its initial course... But their story will end with a devotion that will grant them a forever. Ieyasu Tonagawa had never imagined he'd end up with two lovers, police detectives who both kept dark secrets from their colleagues. But now that he has them, Ieyasu is never letting go and will do anything to protect them...
Yakuza Romance Boxset
Price: $12.99 USD. Words: 174,360. Language: English. Published: January 6, 2023 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Collections & Anthologies, Fiction » Romance » Polyamory, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Yakuza Romance Starter Boxset Dangerous Lessons (The Yakuza and the English Teacher 1) Jamie had come to Kyoto to teach, not fall in love...and especially not with Gou Kitayama, head of the local yakuza. Deadly Game (Tokyo Nights 1) Get in... Get out... Stay alive. Easy right? Or it would've been if Hisato hadn't broken all the rules of an undercover assignment, and fallen in love with his...
Dangerous Life
Series: The Yakuza and the English Teacher, Book 3. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 50,470. Language: English. Originally Published: April 18, 2018 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
His world is a dangerous one. Even more so when his enemies remain shrouded in the shadows of their world and continue to threaten the lives of all those Gou holds dear to him. Like Jamie. But Jamie isn't prepared to remain sidelined and wants to take a more active role in the life that Gou leads...and that frightens Gou. He wants Jamie by his side, but he wants to keep Jamie safe too. And it...
Deception
Series: Nagoya Crimes, Book 1. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 61,010. Language: English. Originally Published: October 24, 2021 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Police & Law Enforcement, Fiction » Romance » Polyamory, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Bisexual
Two men and one woman with the power to destroy them both. Detective Morita knew loving the Kominaka Yakuza Boss—Ieyasu Tonagawa—he'd once been tasked with bringing down wasn't going to be easy. A balancing act with dangerous consequences if it ever came tumbling down. But he had it under control. Walked the thin line separating the two halves of his life with a surefootedness that bordered on...
Caught
Series: Smoke and Shadows, Book 1. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 57,000. Language: English. Originally Published: June 26, 2022 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Love can be dark. It can be dangerous, deadly, and tainted. Chocolate and roses? They weren't the romantic sentiments expected of those who walked in this world of smoke and shadows. Takeshi Matsumoto didnt need them... didn't want them from the man he loved. But he didn't expect the explosions or the attempts on his life, either. It wasn't as though Yoshitake had gifted him with those life...
Rebellion
Series: A Qing Dynasty Romance, Book 1. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 52,330. Language: English. Originally Published: December 5, 2018 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Romance » Military, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial, Fiction » Romance » Historical » Victorian, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
1899, political tensions are rising with the emergence of the Boxer Movement in Northern China, straining ties between the Chinese Imperial Government and the Eight Nations with stakes in the country. As a Captain in the Royal Marines, Alfred Cartwright is deployed to Shanghai, where he discovers more than he'd dared to dream of – Love. Not even the struggles with language or the fear of...
Sagaki: A Tokyo Nights Novella
Series: Tokyo Nights Novellas, Book 1. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 21,230. Language: English. Originally Published: November 16, 2018 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Police & Law Enforcement, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Jun Sagaki had it easy, well as easy as things could be for a Yakuza. He oversaw a profitable area of Tokyo for the Imaida and looked on track to become the Boss. Eventually. One day in the distant future. And then he met Hisato Shibata and his whole world got turned upside down. The position he held, the respect he garnered taken from him along with his finger. But now he's paid his penance...
Bertie
Series: Men of Science, Book 2. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 56,990. Language: English. Originally Published: February 6, 2020 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial, Fiction » Romance » Historical » Victorian, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Do not fear change. Seek to learn what you do not know… Hubert 'Bertie' Thwaites is struggling with the Chinese bureaucracy and their refusal to approve his employer's plan to establish a rail line from Shanghai to Beijing. Understands even less why Feng Shui—or what it even is—keeps being thrown up as the reason why a railway can't be constructed. As his frustration grows, Bertie fears that...
Hiroshi
Series: Tokyo Nights Novellas, Book 3. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 23,490. Language: English. Originally Published: February 9, 2022 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Polyamory, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Taking over the Imaida Organsation? Easy. Discussing their feelings? Not so easy. Hiroshi was falling for hard for the two men who'd walked into his life. One his boss and the object of his unrequited desire. The other a man who'd entered their lives through deception before exposing the secrets Hiroshi kept close to his heart. Two men in love with each other, who'd then welcomed Hiroshi into...
Deadly Gamble
Series: Tokyo Nights, Book 2. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 89,350. Language: English. Originally Published: January 22, 2021 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Police & Law Enforcement, Fiction » Romance » Polyamory, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Hisato cheated death and found love. Now he's on the hardest undercover assignment of his life. Returning to life as a detective was never going to be easy for Hisato Shibata. Caught between two worlds, he needs to balance keeping Ogawa out of jail with still upholding the law. But with his partner's interest in Ogawa bordering on obsession… a dangerous one at that, the scales are teetering...
Dangerous Love
Series: The Yakuza and the English Teacher, Book 2. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 56,170. Language: English. Originally Published: February 15, 2018 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Secrets have been revealed and the dangers that lie hidden in Gou's world are now known to Jamie. But even after experiencing that danger first-hand, he still promises to stay... a promise that Jamie soon begins to regret making. Kyoto's streets might be quiet...for now, but Gou's enemies haven't disappeared. And when Jamie is threatened once more by those behind the attack in Nara, he needs to...
Winter Yakuza
Series: Case Reports Novellas, Book 1. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 19,500. Language: English. Originally Published: July 5, 2021 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Nothing says 'I love you' like a dead body or two. Miyuki Satori understood the dangers that lay hidden in the shadows of his city. As a reporter based at the Sapporo Police Station, it was his job to cover every bloody murder committed by the local yakuza. And yet none of that stopped him from bringing home the injured yakuza - Ren Kuroda, second-in-command of the Ake-no-Tatsu - he stumbled...
Crossing the Line
Series: The Yakuza and the English Teacher, Book 4. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 56,000. Language: English. Originally Published: January 15, 2019 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Brian doesn't do relationships...long-term commitment...or whatever you want to name it. His dates were chosen based on their usefulness and nothing more. A judge's son, a lawyer's daughter, or his colleague who worked in the evidence locker...anyone who'd either help him solve a case or make inconvenient evidence disappear. Because family came first and keeping his father and his cronies out...
Wild Heat
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 7,420. Language: English. Originally Published: July 15, 2020 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
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Bushfires steal so much from people, but Lyam refuses to be one of their victims. His family spent generations building the Wildlife Park, providing a home for both native and exotic animals and he refuses to let the approaching bushfire steal it away from him. He'd do anything to protect it and the animals who rely on him. Even if that means risking his own life to do it. But as the fire races...
Deviation
Series: Nagoya Crimes, Book 2. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 53,630. Language: English. Originally Published: May 24, 2022 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure, Fiction » Romance » Polyamory, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Bisexual
Suyama had a plan: join the police, work her way up the ranks until she worked alongside Morita Kurematsu, and then make the detective hers. What her plan hadn't included: was falling for Ieyasu Tonagawa, a man she'd envied since the age of eighteen becuase Morita shared his bed at night and not hers... a man she'd hated from the moment a judges gavel had seen her father incarcerated for a...
Rueben
Series: Men of Science, Book 1. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 56,670. Language: English. Originally Published: June 16, 2019 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial, Fiction » Romance » Historical » Victorian, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Rueben would be the first to admit he was stubborn. He hated being told something wasn't possible when there was no scientific basis for their claims. So, when his peers told him searching for fossils in China wouldn't be a worthwhile endeavour, instead of quitting Rueben doubled down his efforts to raise the necessary funds to travel there. But his arrival in Shanghai started with...
Deadly Game
Series: Tokyo Nights, Book 1. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 94,150. Language: English. Originally Published: November 22, 2020 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Police & Law Enforcement, Fiction » Romance » Polyamory, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Get in. Get proof. Get out alive. Easy, right? All Hisato Shibata had ever wanted to be was a police officer, to work his way through the ranks like his father had. Wanted to be known as an officer who upheld the oaths he'd sworn and keep the streets of Tokyo free of men like Tatsuo Ogawa—Shinjuku Ward boss for the Yamashita Organisation. Going undercover had never been a part of his plans, but...
Deadly Gifts
Series: Tokyo Nights, Book 3. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 78,760. Language: English. Originally Published: July 5, 2021 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Police & Law Enforcement, Fiction » Romance » Polyamory, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Nothing comes for free. Not love. Not life. It's the price that matters, what one is willing to give up to secure happiness... how far into the darkness one is willing to fall. And Hisato is ready to take the plunge. No more trying to balance his role as a Shinjuku detective with that of a yakuza's lover. But his price is yet to be determined and it's not just his life on the line. The bodies...
A Knight for Two
Series: The Moutrams, Book 3. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 31,410. Language: English. Originally Published: August 29, 2021 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Polyamory, Fiction » Romance » Historical » Medieval, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Xanth longed for a family of his own... Longed to be the one who fell pregnant... Except what Xanth wanted was nothing more than a faniciful dream, because Rhaetian knights fathered children, they didn't give birth to them. Or at least that's what Xanth thought, but a chance encounter with Ronan Moutram while at a tournament in the Kingdom of Suevia soon turns the Rhaetian knight's world on its...
Kirushima: A Tokyo Nights Novella
Series: Tokyo Nights Novellas, Book 2. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 28,270. Language: English. Originally Published: January 12, 2020 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Police & Law Enforcement, Fiction » Romance » Polyamory, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Kirushima joined the Tokyo Metro Police Force twelve years ago with a purpose, and it wasn't cleaning the city's streets of organised crime. Would've been a little hypocritical when he was in line to take over the leadership of the Yoong—the Korean group that controlled the port at Odaiba—one day. In the far future, once his current assignment was finished: rooting out the traitor within their...
Dangerous Lessons
Series: The Yakuza and the English Teacher, Book 1. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 60,450. Language: English. Originally Published: December 19, 2017 by NaomiAoki. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Suspense, Fiction » Romance » Multicultural & Interracial, Fiction » Romance » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Teaching English in Japan had always been a goal of Jamie's once he'd finished his university studies. But scoring a job in Kyoto was like a dream come true...right up until it wasn't. When asked to practice conversationalist English with a wealthy, older Kyoto businessman--Gou Kitayama--Jamie couldn't say no, and he quickly struck up a friendship with his new client. A friendship that slowly...