She came to him because she had no other options. She made sure he knew that.
Mikhail Zima is the youngest brother, the most charming, and — according to everyone who has ever underestimated him — the least dangerous. That last part is wrong. Misha has been running the family's intelligence network for years, watching everything and letting everyone think he's simply watching. He has never once been in a room where someone clocked him immediately.
Until Cara Devlin.
She walks into his building, he turns on the smile, and she looks at it and says: I know what that is. I need your help anyway. Save it.
Her brother is in debt to the wrong people in the wrong world and she has exhausted every other option. She needs Misha's access and his network and the specific intelligence that only someone with his reach can provide. She hates needing him. She makes this clear approximately every forty-five minutes.
He finds this extraordinary.
She argues with him. Every time. About everything. She is usually right, which he finds simultaneously infuriating and more stimulating than anything that has happened to him in years. He starts building her corrections into the plan before she makes them. She notices. Neither of them says anything about it.
She has a rule about charming men. It was earned the hard way. Misha's charm does nothing to her — but his competence is a different matter. So is the specific quality of someone who, for the first time in her professional life, argues back.
Sharp Edges is a full-length, standalone dark Bratva romance with an HEA. It contains explicit content, a hero who has been hiding in plain sight his entire life, a heroine with an immunity built from hard experience, enemies-to-lovers heat that moves fast, and the specific delight of two people who are almost always right arguing their way to the same conclusion.
Book Three in The Zima Pact series. Each book follows a different Zima brother.
Mikhail Zima is the youngest brother, the most charming, and — according to everyone who has ever underestimated him — the least dangerous. That last part is wrong. Misha has been running the family's intelligence network for years, watching everything and letting everyone think he's simply watching. He has never once been in a room where someone clocked him immediately.
Until Cara Devlin.
She walks into his building, he turns on the smile, and she looks at it and says: I know what that is. I need your help anyway. Save it.
Her brother is in debt to the wrong people in the wrong world and she has exhausted every other option. She needs Misha's access and his network and the specific intelligence that only someone with his reach can provide. She hates needing him. She makes this clear approximately every forty-five minutes.
He finds this extraordinary.
She argues with him. Every time. About everything. She is usually right, which he finds simultaneously infuriating and more stimulating than anything that has happened to him in years. He starts building her corrections into the plan before she makes them. She notices. Neither of them says anything about it.
She has a rule about charming men. It was earned the hard way. Misha's charm does nothing to her — but his competence is a different matter. So is the specific quality of someone who, for the first time in her professional life, argues back.
Sharp Edges is a full-length, standalone dark Bratva romance with an HEA. It contains explicit content, a hero who has been hiding in plain sight his entire life, a heroine with an immunity built from hard experience, enemies-to-lovers heat that moves fast, and the specific delight of two people who are almost always right arguing their way to the same conclusion.
Book Three in The Zima Pact series. Each book follows a different Zima brother.
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