When cocktail waitress and aspiring artist Aurora Bailey accidentally witnesses a brutal bratva hit outside the bar where she works, she becomes the next target, until the very man she saw pull the trigger decides to spare her.
Alexei Kozlov, the ruthless enforcer for an infamous Russian crime family, should have silenced her for good. Instead, he’s inexplicably drawn to the fearless woman who refuses to break in the face of death and takes her under his protection. But keeping Aurora alive means pulling her deep into his dangerous world, and when his enemies come for her, there’s only one way to ensure her safety—by making her his.
Kolya Kozlov, head enforcer of the Kozlov Bratva, is sent to recover twenty million dollars in stolen diamonds believed to be tied to Chloe, a seemingly innocent kindergarten teacher, but the mission unravels the moment he meets her and realizes she’s incapable of such a crime, yet undeniably marked as a target by rival forces. Drawn to her light and determined to uncover why she’s being hunted, Kolya shifts from surveillance to protection, vowing to claim her even if it costs him everything.
For Chloe, whose life has been ruled by control since surviving a deadly past, Kolya’s arrival shatters the safe world she’s built; dangerous, magnetic, and forbidden, he awakens a desire she can’t deny. Though he promises to protect her from the Bratva closing in, Chloe fears the greatest risk isn’t her life—but her heart.
Kirill “The Shark” Khitrenko is sent to retrieve a dead journalist’s evidence file that threatens to destroy his family. His target is the journalist’s daughter, Jordan Thorne, a struggling wellness influencer who hides from the world’s messy truths behind a wall of positive affirmations.
When his interrogation tactics fail, Kirill drags her into his violent world, only to discover her “energetic instincts” are a form of perception so sharp it could get them both killed—or save them.
Thrown together in a battle for survival against a rival family and a curious detective, they must trust each other enough to find the truth, forcing Jordan to embrace the chaotic power she’s always feared and Kirill to accept a partner in a life he’s always lived alone.
Charismatic Kozlov fixer Vanya Orlov expects his latest mission to be simple: retrieve a rare book from a quiet, rare books library. He’s thwarted by the brilliant, rule-bound librarian Paige Kisner, who’s an unexpectedly formidable fortress against his legendary charm.
Forced to use darker methods, Vanya shatters Paige’s meticulously ordered world, blackmailing her into his hunt and awakening a wildness she’s long suppressed. Hunted by rivals and the ghosts of a shared, traumatic past, Paige must choose between the safe life she thought she needed, and the intoxicating man who brought her dangerously alive, never guessing the book Vanya wants contains a secret that will bring the Kozlovs to their knees.
Fueled by guilt and a thirst for vengeance, Kozlov family enforcer “Mad Max” Belov is sent on a mission to hunt down Anika Kozlov, Roman’s long-lost daughter and the brilliant mastermind behind his family’s ruin. But Max has his own plans: kill her. Their deadly game of cat and mouse becomes an explosive, sexually charged forced proximity affair when they become snowbound in her remote mountain retreat, where hunter and hunted prove they’re equals in skill, strategy, and desire.
But their entire reality is shattered when they discover the true villain. Forced to become allies, Max must protect the woman he swore to destroy as they return to the haunted shores of Chaos Island to confront the real monster and decide the fate of the Kozlov legacy.
