Seized by the Bratva
(2026)(The third book in the Oaths of the Bratva series)
A novel by Cora J Riley
He knew she was FBI from the moment they met. She thought she was fooling him.
Special Agent Isabella Romano has spent six months undercover in the Volkov bratva organization, gathering evidence against the most dangerous crime family in New York. She's close to extraction, close to safety, close to taking them all down.
Then Maksim Orlovsky—the Pakhan's charming, unreadable second-in-command—corners her at a charity gala with four words that change everything: "I know who you are."
But instead of killing her, he takes her. Instead of torture, he offers truth: her FBI handlers are corrupt, working with rival bratva, and planning her execution in three days. He has proof. He has a plan. And he has her—captive in his penthouse, dependent on him for survival, falling for a man who should be her enemy.
Maksim never planned to keep her.
He's spent twenty years hiding behind charm and calculated smiles, being whatever the bratva needed. Hollow. Empty. Safe. But Isabella sees through every mask, challenges every deflection, and makes him feel dangerously human. She's brilliant, fierce, and completely off-limits.
So he tells himself he's just using her—gathering intel, exposing her corrupt handlers, settling scores. But when she looks at him like he's worth something, when she chooses to stay even after the door's unlocked, when she whispers she loves him in the darkness—he realizes he's the one who's been captured.
She was supposed to be his prisoner. She became his everything.
Now they're partners hunting the people who tried to destroy them. Lovers building something real from something wrong. Two damaged people learning that sometimes the most dangerous mission is letting someone see who you really are beneath the mask.
A dark mafia romance about captivity that becomes choice, enemies who become lovers, and two people who save each other against all odds.
Genre: Mystery
Special Agent Isabella Romano has spent six months undercover in the Volkov bratva organization, gathering evidence against the most dangerous crime family in New York. She's close to extraction, close to safety, close to taking them all down.
Then Maksim Orlovsky—the Pakhan's charming, unreadable second-in-command—corners her at a charity gala with four words that change everything: "I know who you are."
But instead of killing her, he takes her. Instead of torture, he offers truth: her FBI handlers are corrupt, working with rival bratva, and planning her execution in three days. He has proof. He has a plan. And he has her—captive in his penthouse, dependent on him for survival, falling for a man who should be her enemy.
Maksim never planned to keep her.
He's spent twenty years hiding behind charm and calculated smiles, being whatever the bratva needed. Hollow. Empty. Safe. But Isabella sees through every mask, challenges every deflection, and makes him feel dangerously human. She's brilliant, fierce, and completely off-limits.
So he tells himself he's just using her—gathering intel, exposing her corrupt handlers, settling scores. But when she looks at him like he's worth something, when she chooses to stay even after the door's unlocked, when she whispers she loves him in the darkness—he realizes he's the one who's been captured.
She was supposed to be his prisoner. She became his everything.
Now they're partners hunting the people who tried to destroy them. Lovers building something real from something wrong. Two damaged people learning that sometimes the most dangerous mission is letting someone see who you really are beneath the mask.
A dark mafia romance about captivity that becomes choice, enemies who become lovers, and two people who save each other against all odds.
Genre: Mystery
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