It's Always Cold In Moscow
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He broke her door down in the dead of a Moscow winter.
Five months ago, Vanity walked out of Alexei Petrovich's penthouse with their newborn son and didn't look back. She hasn't had to.
Until tonight.
He arrives furious, exhausted, and looking at their son like he's been starving for the sight of both of them. Vanity knows better than to trust him. She also knows better than to trust herself around him.
Because Alexei was never just a man. He was a world - wealth, control, obsession, and the quiet violence behind the Petrovich name. His family is powerful, secretive, and operates by rules she was never supposed to read. Once she lets him back into her life, leaving again may cost more than heartbreak.
A novel about love, possession, and the dangerous comfort of going back.
Contains explicit sexual content, possessive dynamics, past infidelity, emotional control, and allusions to organised crime.
For adult readers.
I write women who survive the men they love.
It's Always Cold in Moscow is a standalone adult romance drama in The Vanity Sedoc Books.
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