The Markov Gambit
(2026)(The second book in the Markov Dynasty series)
A novel by Nadia Aidan and Eve Noon
He has never been outplayed. Then he met the woman hired to destroy him.
Aleksandr Markov is the mind behind the most powerful crime family in the South… A former chess prodigy who sees ten moves ahead and feels nothing he doesn’t choose to. For six weeks, someone has been beating him. He doesn’t lose. He’s losing.
When he uncovers the mastermind behind the chaos, it’s not the DA gunning for his family. It’s the woman the DA hired—Dr. Rosalyn Wells, the only mind he’s ever encountered that moves like his. A game theorist with a PhD in strategy, sunshine to his ice, and a mouth that calls him a grumpy old man to his face.
But when Lyn is ordered to cross a line that she won’t, she walks straight into Markov territory to warn the family she was paid to take apart. Now she’s a loose end the DA wants erased, and the safest place for her is under the roof of the man she’s spent six weeks beating.
Aleksandr tells himself he’s keeping her to dismantle the threat. That she’s just another complication. A problem to be fixed. A pawn in a game she should never have been playing.
But he’s lying. And he knows it.
She’s the only thing he’s wanted in years, and the one variable he can't calculate. So he'll do the thing he never does: stop playing to win, and start playing to keep her.
The Markov Gambit is a full-length, scorching BWWM dark Bratva romance: a brooding younger strategist, a brilliant older heroine who's never met a man who could keep up until him, enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, and a battle of wits that burns to the bone. No cheating. No cliffhanger. Guaranteed HEA. Book Two of the Markov Family series.
Genre: Romance
Aleksandr Markov is the mind behind the most powerful crime family in the South… A former chess prodigy who sees ten moves ahead and feels nothing he doesn’t choose to. For six weeks, someone has been beating him. He doesn’t lose. He’s losing.
When he uncovers the mastermind behind the chaos, it’s not the DA gunning for his family. It’s the woman the DA hired—Dr. Rosalyn Wells, the only mind he’s ever encountered that moves like his. A game theorist with a PhD in strategy, sunshine to his ice, and a mouth that calls him a grumpy old man to his face.
But when Lyn is ordered to cross a line that she won’t, she walks straight into Markov territory to warn the family she was paid to take apart. Now she’s a loose end the DA wants erased, and the safest place for her is under the roof of the man she’s spent six weeks beating.
Aleksandr tells himself he’s keeping her to dismantle the threat. That she’s just another complication. A problem to be fixed. A pawn in a game she should never have been playing.
But he’s lying. And he knows it.
She’s the only thing he’s wanted in years, and the one variable he can't calculate. So he'll do the thing he never does: stop playing to win, and start playing to keep her.
The Markov Gambit is a full-length, scorching BWWM dark Bratva romance: a brooding younger strategist, a brilliant older heroine who's never met a man who could keep up until him, enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, and a battle of wits that burns to the bone. No cheating. No cliffhanger. Guaranteed HEA. Book Two of the Markov Family series.
Genre: Romance