Forced Bride of the Vengeful Bratva Stalker
(2026)(The seventh book in the Rudenko Bratva series)
A novel by Maree Fox
I was sent to investigate the Bratva.
Instead, its obsessive king started stalking me.
Now he says the only way to keep me safe is to become his wife.I’ve spent months following Nikolai Rudenko’s money.
The thirty-eight-year-old Bratva strategist should want me dead.
Instead, he’s obsessed.
When another crime syndicate comes for me, Nikolai saves me.
Then refuses to let me leave.
He calls it protection.
I call it kidnapping.
I fight him at every turn.
He just smiles like he enjoys it.
And God, I hate the way he looks at my curves.
The way he gets too close when we argue.
The way my body reacts to a man I’m supposed to destroy.
I’m the investigator who could bring down his empire.
He’s the criminal determined to make me his.
Then two pink lines change everything.
Now my own agency may want me silenced.
And Nikolai has decided there’s only one place I’ll ever be safe.
Wearing his ring.
He wants everything.
My body.
My loyalty.
My future.
I should hate him.
I do hate him.
So why can’t I stop wanting him?
Because Nikolai Rudenko doesn’t just want revenge on the people I work for.
He wants me.
And once this Bratva man decides something belongs to him...
He never lets it go.
Author’s Note:
A dark Bratva romance featuring enemies to lovers, age gap, forced marriage, kidnapping, revenge, an obsessive ruthless hero, a curvy heroine, surprise pregnancy, no cheating, a guaranteed HEA, and no cliffhanger.
Genre: Mystery
Instead, its obsessive king started stalking me.
Now he says the only way to keep me safe is to become his wife.I’ve spent months following Nikolai Rudenko’s money.
The thirty-eight-year-old Bratva strategist should want me dead.
Instead, he’s obsessed.
When another crime syndicate comes for me, Nikolai saves me.
Then refuses to let me leave.
He calls it protection.
I call it kidnapping.
I fight him at every turn.
He just smiles like he enjoys it.
And God, I hate the way he looks at my curves.
The way he gets too close when we argue.
The way my body reacts to a man I’m supposed to destroy.
I’m the investigator who could bring down his empire.
He’s the criminal determined to make me his.
Then two pink lines change everything.
Now my own agency may want me silenced.
And Nikolai has decided there’s only one place I’ll ever be safe.
Wearing his ring.
He wants everything.
My body.
My loyalty.
My future.
I should hate him.
I do hate him.
So why can’t I stop wanting him?
Because Nikolai Rudenko doesn’t just want revenge on the people I work for.
He wants me.
And once this Bratva man decides something belongs to him...
He never lets it go.
Author’s Note:
A dark Bratva romance featuring enemies to lovers, age gap, forced marriage, kidnapping, revenge, an obsessive ruthless hero, a curvy heroine, surprise pregnancy, no cheating, a guaranteed HEA, and no cliffhanger.
Genre: Mystery