THE BOUND BRIDE

He needed a wife to save his empire. He never expected to fall for the debt he came to collect.

My brother's gambling debt became my sentence. Marry Roman Nazarov - Pakhan of the most feared Bratva in Chicago - or watch my family pay it in blood.

He's twice my age, colder than the January wind off the lake, and the most dangerous man in the city. I told him he was insane. I signed the paper anyway.

Then he offers me something I never expected: honesty. Protection. A gentleness no one warned me a man like him could have.

But every vow I make binds me tighter. Every night in his bed unravels me a little further. And underneath the debt that bought my hand, a secret sixteen years in the making is already circling us both - one neither of us will survive by simply staying careful.

When his enemies decide the fastest way to destroy him is through me, I'll have to choose: run from the war I married into, or fight for the one man who taught me that being owned and being chosen aren't the same thing at all.

A dark, addictive Bratva romance with a possessive Pakhan, a forbidden age gap, and a war neither of us can walk away from.

Perfect for readers who love forced marriage, dark mafia heroes, and slow-burn possessive romance.