He was supposed to be just another alliance.
She was supposed to stay professional.
Neither of them planned on falling—or on the pregnancy test two months later.
Dmitri Zakharov is a strategist. He plans three steps ahead, never mixes business with pleasure, and absolutely does not do relationships. But when the Antonov-Zakharov alliance requires face-to-face negotiations, he meets Anastasia Antonova—the brilliant, terrifying daughter of Prague's most chaotic crime family—and every rule he's ever lived by goes out the window.
Stasya Antonova has spent her life being "the competent one." While her siblings blow up the wrong buildings and accidentally post evidence on TikTok, she runs operations with ruthless efficiency. She doesn't have time for distractions. Especially not the kind that come in the form of a devastatingly intelligent Russian strategist who looks at her like she's a puzzle he's desperate to solve.
But when a rejected marriage proposal turns deadly, they're forced together—coordinating operations, eliminating threats, and pretending they're not falling for each other. Until one night changes everything. And suddenly, Stasya isn't just managing alliance politics. She's pregnant. With Dmitri's baby. In the middle of an international turf war.
Now they're navigating assassination attempts, family chaos, and the terrifying reality that they're about to become parents. Together. Forever. Whether they planned it or not.
Because in their world, you don't just marry for love.
You marry for survival.
And sometimes, if you're very lucky, you get both.
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SAVAGE PASSION is a dark mafia romance featuring a competent heroine who manages chaos, a strategic hero who gets shot way too often (running joke), enemies-to-lovers tension, an unplanned pregnancy that changes everything, found family vibes, and an HEA with three kids and absolute pandemonium. Features explicit content, profanity, graphic violence, and a hero who says "I love you" in every grammatical tense.
Book 3 in the Savage Series. Can be read as a standalone, but it's better if you know the Zakharov brothers.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
She was supposed to stay professional.
Neither of them planned on falling—or on the pregnancy test two months later.
Dmitri Zakharov is a strategist. He plans three steps ahead, never mixes business with pleasure, and absolutely does not do relationships. But when the Antonov-Zakharov alliance requires face-to-face negotiations, he meets Anastasia Antonova—the brilliant, terrifying daughter of Prague's most chaotic crime family—and every rule he's ever lived by goes out the window.
Stasya Antonova has spent her life being "the competent one." While her siblings blow up the wrong buildings and accidentally post evidence on TikTok, she runs operations with ruthless efficiency. She doesn't have time for distractions. Especially not the kind that come in the form of a devastatingly intelligent Russian strategist who looks at her like she's a puzzle he's desperate to solve.
But when a rejected marriage proposal turns deadly, they're forced together—coordinating operations, eliminating threats, and pretending they're not falling for each other. Until one night changes everything. And suddenly, Stasya isn't just managing alliance politics. She's pregnant. With Dmitri's baby. In the middle of an international turf war.
Now they're navigating assassination attempts, family chaos, and the terrifying reality that they're about to become parents. Together. Forever. Whether they planned it or not.
Because in their world, you don't just marry for love.
You marry for survival.
And sometimes, if you're very lucky, you get both.
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SAVAGE PASSION is a dark mafia romance featuring a competent heroine who manages chaos, a strategic hero who gets shot way too often (running joke), enemies-to-lovers tension, an unplanned pregnancy that changes everything, found family vibes, and an HEA with three kids and absolute pandemonium. Features explicit content, profanity, graphic violence, and a hero who says "I love you" in every grammatical tense.
Book 3 in the Savage Series. Can be read as a standalone, but it's better if you know the Zakharov brothers.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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