The Bratva's Captive
(2026)(The second book in the Sokolov Sin Trilogy series)
A novel by Danielle Kent
She's not a captive anymore.
She chose to stay. That's the thing nobody told her would be harder.
Zara Petrov has been in Aleksei Sokolov's compound for three months. She's running
the legitimate arm of his operation, fixing what two decades of adequate management
missed, building something she's been qualified to build since her MBA and never been
allowed to. She has an office with a window. She has Nadia. She has Yuri's eggs and
Mikhail's chaos and a baby who has opinions about everything and communicates
them primarily through kicks.
She has Aleksei.
What she doesn't have is the comfortable fiction that any of it is simple. There's a mole
in her operation, placed before she arrived, feeding intelligence to someone she didn't
account for. There's a federal task force that's been watching both families for eighteen
months and has just decided she's the pressure point. There's her father, who is moving,
slowly, in a direction that might eventually become peace — if she can keep both men
from making it worse first.
And then there's the baby. Due in four months. Growing. Real.
The captivity in Book One was a door closing. This one is different. This is the captivity
of a life that has closed around you and turned out to be exactly what you wanted —
and the specific terror of that, when what you want is also the most complicated thing
you have ever loved.
Aleksei knows all of this. He's also running an empire, managing a war that's
technically on pause, dealing with a task force that wants to use the woman he loves as
leverage, and trying to figure out how to be a father to a child who is going to inherit
everything he's built.
He's patient. He has to be. She's worth being patient for.
But the task force is escalating. And the mole is closer than either of them thought. And
the baby is coming regardless of whether anything else is resolved.
The Bratva's Captive is Book Two of the Sokolov Sin Trilogy — full-length, explicit, dual
POV, with a pregnancy, a mole, a federal investigation, an arranged marriage that
didn't happen, and a man who walked into a dining room with eight armed men in
Book One because she told him to be loud. Cliffhanger ending. HEA in Book Three.
She chose to stay. That's the thing nobody told her would be harder.
Zara Petrov has been in Aleksei Sokolov's compound for three months. She's running
the legitimate arm of his operation, fixing what two decades of adequate management
missed, building something she's been qualified to build since her MBA and never been
allowed to. She has an office with a window. She has Nadia. She has Yuri's eggs and
Mikhail's chaos and a baby who has opinions about everything and communicates
them primarily through kicks.
She has Aleksei.
What she doesn't have is the comfortable fiction that any of it is simple. There's a mole
in her operation, placed before she arrived, feeding intelligence to someone she didn't
account for. There's a federal task force that's been watching both families for eighteen
months and has just decided she's the pressure point. There's her father, who is moving,
slowly, in a direction that might eventually become peace — if she can keep both men
from making it worse first.
And then there's the baby. Due in four months. Growing. Real.
The captivity in Book One was a door closing. This one is different. This is the captivity
of a life that has closed around you and turned out to be exactly what you wanted —
and the specific terror of that, when what you want is also the most complicated thing
you have ever loved.
Aleksei knows all of this. He's also running an empire, managing a war that's
technically on pause, dealing with a task force that wants to use the woman he loves as
leverage, and trying to figure out how to be a father to a child who is going to inherit
everything he's built.
He's patient. He has to be. She's worth being patient for.
But the task force is escalating. And the mole is closer than either of them thought. And
the baby is coming regardless of whether anything else is resolved.
The Bratva's Captive is Book Two of the Sokolov Sin Trilogy — full-length, explicit, dual
POV, with a pregnancy, a mole, a federal investigation, an arranged marriage that
didn't happen, and a man who walked into a dining room with eight armed men in
Book One because she told him to be loud. Cliffhanger ending. HEA in Book Three.
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