The Serpent's Embrace
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Last published Fri, Apr 25, 2025
Selena Ross carefully curated world shatters when she catches the obsessive gaze of Vaughn Zherdev. What begins as a chilling awareness of being watched culminates in a brutal abduction, thrusting her into the opulent and dangerous world of the Russian Mafia. Held captive by a man who sees her as his prized possession, Selena must navigate the treacherous currents of his desire and fight for any semblance of freedom within her gilded cage. But in the suffocating darkness, a dangerous tension ignites, blurring the lines between captor and captive, and threatening to chain her heart as surely as her body.
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