Blood in the Water

Katarina Volkov was never meant to rule the underworld.

She was meant to be traded.

Years ago her father, Russian crime boss Viktor Volkov, sold her to the Irish syndicate to settle a debt. Now, after the deaths of his legitimate sons, he tries again-this time offering her to Rowan O'Rourke in a marriage designed to fuse two empires.

Neither man asks Katarina what she wants.

To the public, she's a mesmerizing lounge singer moving through criminal high society. In darker circles, she's something far more dangerous-an assassin who never misses.

What no one knows is that Katarina has spent years building Black Tide, a covert network designed to dismantle her father's human-trafficking empire from the inside out.

And Rowan O'Rourke isn't the only Irish heir to claim power.

After ten years in prison for a crime he didn't commit-set up by the twin brother who stole his future-Ronan O'Connell is finally free. While everyone believed he was buried behind concrete and steel, Ronan was building alliances no Bratva boss would touch and a network that now stretches far beyond prison walls.

He didn't survive a decade inside.

He prepared.

As a wedding meant to secure power approaches, old loyalties fracture and hidden empires begin to surface.

Because Katarina Volkov was never prey.

And Ronan O'Connell didn't come back to take his place.

He came back to take everything.

The water is already turning red.