"Sign the contract, Maya. Six months of playing my wife, or six seconds before the men who killed your father find you. Your choice, maya milaya."
Maya Volkov Sokolova is a survivor. But when her father gambles away three million dollars to the Russian mob and pays with his life, Maya is left with a debt she can't pay and a target on her back.
Enter Dimitri Volkov. The "Ice Pakhan." Ruthless, lethal, and the most powerful man in the Bratva. He doesn't want her blood-he wants her name. He offers her a deal: Marry him for six months to solidify his power, and her debt is erased.
The rules are simple:
1. In public, she is his devoted queen.
2. She lives under his roof, under his protection.
3. She never, ever questions his business.
But as the line between the contract and reality blurs, Maya realizes the "Ice Pakhan" has a fire inside him that threatens to consume them both. In Dimitri's world, everything has a price-and he's decided that Maya is worth far more than three million dollars.
He didn't just buy her debt. He claimed her soul.
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A dark, possessive, forced-marriage mafia romance.
Contains explicit content, dominant themes, and a protective alpha hero.
HEA guaranteed.
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Raelynn Drake thought surviving her marriage meant staying silent. Enduring. Fading into the background.
Especially when that marriage was to Clarence the golden boy of a powerful family... and Apollo Alexander's stepbrother.
Apollo is everything Clarence isn't - cold, inked, ruthless. A man who lives in the shadows and doesn't let anyone in. But when he finds Raelynn broken and bleeding after one violent night too many, he doesn't walk away. He takes her in. Protects her.
And starts to fall for her.
What begins as safety quickly spirals into something fierce and forbidden. She's his brother's wife -or was. And the deeper they fall, the more dangerous everything becomes.
He's the assassin with a guarded heart.
She's the survivor learning how to breathe again.
And together, they'll burn their pasts to the ground to build something new.