He needs an alliance. She needs leverage. Neither of them planned on the list.
When her father's rival moves to absorb the Orlov holdings, Natasha Orlova has two choices: let her family be swallowed by a man who won't lose sleep over it, or accept the arranged marriage her father has negotiated with Boston's most dangerous pakhan.
She chooses the marriage. On her terms. All fourteen of them, organized by priority with built-in concessions, negotiated across a conference table from a man who answered her message in four minutes and hasn't stopped paying attention since.
Aleksei Volkov has been running his operation with cold precision for twelve years. He doesn't want a wife. He wants an alliance and the specific stability that comes with one. What he gets is a woman who rearranges his study furniture on the first weekend without asking, keeps a list of things she notices about him, and has renamed the list home before she admits she's done it.
This is not a love story that arrives gently. It arrives in a kitchen at six in the morning when she comes downstairs and the coffee is already made. It arrives in the study at midnight when they're both working and neither of them is performing anything. It arrives in the moment she says: I think if you don't kiss me soon I'm going to have to address that.
But Viktor Sobol isn't finished. And when he comes for her—not Aleksei, her, specifically, because he's correctly identified the threat—they're going to have to dismantle him together.
Good thing they've been practicing.
The Bratva Bride is a slow-burn arranged marriage dark romance featuring an ice-cold hero who expresses love through logistics and action, a sharp-tongued heroine who keeps a list, and a villain who underestimates exactly the wrong person. Explicit content. 18+ only.
When her father's rival moves to absorb the Orlov holdings, Natasha Orlova has two choices: let her family be swallowed by a man who won't lose sleep over it, or accept the arranged marriage her father has negotiated with Boston's most dangerous pakhan.
She chooses the marriage. On her terms. All fourteen of them, organized by priority with built-in concessions, negotiated across a conference table from a man who answered her message in four minutes and hasn't stopped paying attention since.
Aleksei Volkov has been running his operation with cold precision for twelve years. He doesn't want a wife. He wants an alliance and the specific stability that comes with one. What he gets is a woman who rearranges his study furniture on the first weekend without asking, keeps a list of things she notices about him, and has renamed the list home before she admits she's done it.
This is not a love story that arrives gently. It arrives in a kitchen at six in the morning when she comes downstairs and the coffee is already made. It arrives in the study at midnight when they're both working and neither of them is performing anything. It arrives in the moment she says: I think if you don't kiss me soon I'm going to have to address that.
But Viktor Sobol isn't finished. And when he comes for her—not Aleksei, her, specifically, because he's correctly identified the threat—they're going to have to dismantle him together.
Good thing they've been practicing.
The Bratva Bride is a slow-burn arranged marriage dark romance featuring an ice-cold hero who expresses love through logistics and action, a sharp-tongued heroine who keeps a list, and a villain who underestimates exactly the wrong person. Explicit content. 18+ only.
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