She was sold at an auction. He was the man who bought her.
Wren Calloway had one rule for survival: don’t trust anyone. Then the Pakhan of the Volkov Bratva paid two million dollars for her at a trafficking auction, dragged her into his armoured compound, and told her five rules she had to follow. She broke them all before breakfast.
Nikolai Volkov hasn’t felt anything in five years. Not since his wife was murdered and his world turned to ice. He doesn’t want the green-eyed bartender from Queens. He doesn’t want her sharp mouth, her defiance, or the way she looks at him like she can see through every wall he’s built. He bought her because she’s the key to destroying the man who killed his family. She’s an asset. A tool. Nothing more.
He keeps telling himself that.
As Wren is pulled deeper into the Volkov conspiracy—a web of murdered parents, stolen identities, and a grandfather who wrote her name in a secret ledger twenty-six years ago—she discovers that Nikolai’s ice hides a man who sends her tampons and chocolate without being asked, who says ‘please’ like it’s a foreign language, and who looks at her when he thinks she can’t see with an expression that could melt glaciers.
But someone inside the compound is feeding information to the enemy. Someone close. Someone they both trust. And by the time the truth is revealed, Wren will have to decide: is she a captive who fell for her captor, or a woman who chose to love a man the world calls a monster?
She was named for a bird that doesn’t stay where it’s put. He was the cage she chose not to leave.
Caged in Crimson is Book One of The Volkov Legacy trilogy. Full-length dark Bratva romance. 98,000 words. Captive/captor. Slow burn. He falls first. Morally grey hero. BDSM elements. HEA. Contains mature themes including references to trafficking, violence, and explicit sexual content. Reader discretion advised.
Wren Calloway had one rule for survival: don’t trust anyone. Then the Pakhan of the Volkov Bratva paid two million dollars for her at a trafficking auction, dragged her into his armoured compound, and told her five rules she had to follow. She broke them all before breakfast.
Nikolai Volkov hasn’t felt anything in five years. Not since his wife was murdered and his world turned to ice. He doesn’t want the green-eyed bartender from Queens. He doesn’t want her sharp mouth, her defiance, or the way she looks at him like she can see through every wall he’s built. He bought her because she’s the key to destroying the man who killed his family. She’s an asset. A tool. Nothing more.
He keeps telling himself that.
As Wren is pulled deeper into the Volkov conspiracy—a web of murdered parents, stolen identities, and a grandfather who wrote her name in a secret ledger twenty-six years ago—she discovers that Nikolai’s ice hides a man who sends her tampons and chocolate without being asked, who says ‘please’ like it’s a foreign language, and who looks at her when he thinks she can’t see with an expression that could melt glaciers.
But someone inside the compound is feeding information to the enemy. Someone close. Someone they both trust. And by the time the truth is revealed, Wren will have to decide: is she a captive who fell for her captor, or a woman who chose to love a man the world calls a monster?
She was named for a bird that doesn’t stay where it’s put. He was the cage she chose not to leave.
Caged in Crimson is Book One of The Volkov Legacy trilogy. Full-length dark Bratva romance. 98,000 words. Captive/captor. Slow burn. He falls first. Morally grey hero. BDSM elements. HEA. Contains mature themes including references to trafficking, violence, and explicit sexual content. Reader discretion advised.
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