Bound to the Bratva Boss
(2026)(The third book in the Zakharov Brotherhood series)
A novel by Cora J Riley
Ruslan Zakharov is the Pakhan — the most dangerous man in the city. Cold. Calculating. Brutal in business. After watching his best friend fall for his sister, he’s sworn off vulnerability entirely. He controls empires. He feels nothing.
He’s lying.
Thessaly ‘Thessa’ Voronova is a forensic linguist the bratva contracts for a three-week negotiation with a Georgian syndicate. Half-Greek, half-Russian, all chaos. She talks too much, laughs too loud, and treats the most feared man in the Russian underworld like an annoyed house cat.
She''ll live in his home. Work from his office. Stay under his watch. She negotiates her fee upward three times before agreeing. He'''s already irritated. She’s already entertained.
She leaves sticky notes around his office in four languages. ‘Smile, it confuses people.’ ‘You’d be less scary if you ate carbs.’ He finds himself reading them. He keeps one. He will die before admitting this.
She dances with someone else at a bratva dinner. He cuts in without a word and doesn’t let go for four songs. She wears a dress with a low back. He puts his jacket over her shoulders. ‘It’s cold.’ It’s July.
But Thessa has a secret — one that could destroy everything between them. And Ruslan Zakharov doesn’t forgive betrayal. Not from enemies. Certainly not from the woman who renamed his German Shepherds and made him want something he’d sworn he’d never need.
Kept by the Bratva Boss is Book Three of The Zakharov Brotherhood Series — a scorching grumpy-sunshine dark mafia romance with a hero who slides a ring across his desk during a meeting and says ‘Don’t make this a thing.’ She absolutely makes it a thing. Standalone HEA.
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