Not Your Hero

[A dark mafia romance]

Kimberly Bosch is a baker. She makes cinnamon rolls and birthday cakes and pretends her life hasn't fallen apart. Her boyfriend is dead. Her best friend pulled the trigger. And now the Irish mob is asking questions she can't answer.

She should be scared. She is scared. But survival has a way of making you do things you never thought you were capable of.

Alexei Arkadi is an enforcer. He doesn't speak unless ordered. He doesn't feel unless forced. He was made in a Siberian hell called Section 13, forged into a weapon with no name, no past, and no understanding of human emotion.

He kills for the 'Ndrangheta. He follows orders. He doesn't ask questions.

Until her.

Kim doesn't know who Alexei is. She just knows he's the terrifying man who saved her twice without saying a word. She doesn't know he's a monster. She doesn't know he's covered in the blood of men who crossed his family.

And she doesn't know that when the mob comes looking for answers, the only person who can protect her is the one man she should be running from.

Alexei can't read her face. He can't understand why his chest feels tight when she's near. He only knows that when someone threatens her, his hands move before his brain catches up.

He's a weapon. And he's pointed himself at anyone who tries to touch her.

They call him the Vrykolakas. A monster. A ghost.

But Kim looks at him like he's something else entirely.

And that terrifies him more than anything Section 13 ever did.

[Book #1 in the "Dirty Teresis" series]