Lily Wong is a Kunoichi (females ninja) who lives a double life rescuing women and children as part of a domestic violence initiative, whilst balancing her role as the daughter of a Hong Konger Ma and North Dakodan Norwegian Baba. Lily began her double life at the refuge since her younger sister Rose was sexually assaulted and murdered five years ago. During the day, she helps her baba at the resturant and his local friends with their "urgent" requests to embed celebrity details in their local tweets.

Tori Eldridge has used her own multi heritage experience as the basis of Lily Wong; she also trained in simular martial arts as Lily. However, this is where the simularities end.

This is the first book in the series; each one builds on the character and world building of the previous. In this first book, lily has been tasked to protect a Mother and Son from a Husband with gang affliations. She also gets embroiled in a Web where she meets an attractive asassin for hire J Tran, the local murky politics and a human trafficking ring. Of course, this is also the time where her Ma sets up a date with the perfect Chinese Man Daniel.

I really enjoyed the exploration of lily's multicultural experiences and how this plays out in her life, e.g her home design - she has a dojo in the middle, with partition for her Chinese drawer and the Norwegian quilt which she seeks comfort from. I also really enjoyed Lily's reflections drawn from her family memories. This book really reminds me of Stephanie Plum, a character created by Janet Evanovich - a much loved series as I was growing up.