What do you do when you run away to disappear, and he notices you anyway?
Petra Vance isn't hiding, exactly. She's relocating. Away from Oxfordshire, away from the man she was engaged to, away from the version of herself that spent eighteen months getting smaller and quieter until she couldn't find herself anymore.
Edinburgh is distance. Distance is breathing room.
It would work perfectly if Arkadiy Zolotov hadn't sat down at her table on day three, eaten her pastry without asking, and decided she was the most interesting thing to happen to him in years. He's the enforcer for Edinburgh's most dangerous Bratva operation. He's also funny, warm, catastrophically perceptive, and completely impossible to ignore. He listens to everything she says. He notices what she hasn't said yet.
She's at the café at eight fifty-seven the next morning.
She's not saying that means anything.
But her past isn't done with her. And when someone uses the life she's building against her, she's going to find out exactly what she's fighting for — and exactly what it feels like when someone fights back on your behalf, without conditions, without making you smaller.
Broken by the Bratva is Book Two in the Zolotov Bratva Series — a dark romance featuring a mouthy, chaotic heroine who has absolutely no filter, an enforcer who is significantly more feeling than he looks, and an Edinburgh winter that is considerably more dangerous than advertised. Explicit content, dark themes, a controlling ex, emotional rebuild, a man going feral for the woman he loves, and a vicar who brings the Victoria sponge in the good tin. 18+
Dual POV · Explicit dark romance · Edinburgh · Bratva · Emotional rebuild · Mouthy heroine · Found family · 18+
Petra Vance isn't hiding, exactly. She's relocating. Away from Oxfordshire, away from the man she was engaged to, away from the version of herself that spent eighteen months getting smaller and quieter until she couldn't find herself anymore.
Edinburgh is distance. Distance is breathing room.
It would work perfectly if Arkadiy Zolotov hadn't sat down at her table on day three, eaten her pastry without asking, and decided she was the most interesting thing to happen to him in years. He's the enforcer for Edinburgh's most dangerous Bratva operation. He's also funny, warm, catastrophically perceptive, and completely impossible to ignore. He listens to everything she says. He notices what she hasn't said yet.
She's at the café at eight fifty-seven the next morning.
She's not saying that means anything.
But her past isn't done with her. And when someone uses the life she's building against her, she's going to find out exactly what she's fighting for — and exactly what it feels like when someone fights back on your behalf, without conditions, without making you smaller.
Broken by the Bratva is Book Two in the Zolotov Bratva Series — a dark romance featuring a mouthy, chaotic heroine who has absolutely no filter, an enforcer who is significantly more feeling than he looks, and an Edinburgh winter that is considerably more dangerous than advertised. Explicit content, dark themes, a controlling ex, emotional rebuild, a man going feral for the woman he loves, and a vicar who brings the Victoria sponge in the good tin. 18+
Dual POV · Explicit dark romance · Edinburgh · Bratva · Emotional rebuild · Mouthy heroine · Found family · 18+
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