After saving her life from a cartel assassin, he can't stop thinking about the alluring heiress with striking gray eyes-or all the reasons he'll never be good enough for her. With a bestselling series of graphic novels and her very own thriving arts center, Hadley has one more box to check on her to-do list.ĭamaged and broken, former Marine Finn Connolly has never wanted anything as badly as he wants Hadley. Coddled and spoiled by her wealthy parents, she's finally managed to break free and live life on her own terms. The brutal gangster who violently conquered the streets of Moscow and Houston is about to be unleashed-and Houston's underworld will never be the same again.īorn with a broken heart, Hadley Rivera hasn't stopped fighting since the moment she drew her first breath. To protect his beloved wife and his heir, he'll do absolutely anything. The sins of their fathers have come back to haunt Vivian and Nikolai. One wrong move, and he won't see another sunrise. One wrong move, and he'll lose Vivian and his child forever. He can feel the promise of his future happiness slipping through his fingers like grains of sand. But as his young wife prepares for her debut on the international art stage, he finds himself drawn into a bloody conflict that threatens the quiet life he's painstakingly built. Nikolai finally has everything he's ever wanted-power, wealth and a family with Vivian, the beautiful sun who lights up his dark life. But Nikolai is keeping secrets from her, and the whispers of a coming street war leave her terrified for the man she so passionately loves-and the tiny life growing inside her. Suddenly, Nikolai’s only chance to protect her is to do the one thing he vowed never to do-he’ll drag her deeper into his shadowy world and bind her to him forever.Claimed and cherished by Houston's most ruthless mob boss, artist Vivian Kalasnikov embraces her new position as Nikolai's wife and the lonely, dangerous role as queen of Houston's underworld. After Vivian is ripped from his arms in a brazen blitz attack, Nikolai will stop at nothing to get her back-but rescuing her and keeping her safe in his arms isn’t enough. She’s the bright light in his dark world and the only thing that keeps him from sliding deeper into a life of crime and violence-a mobbed-up life he can’t escape no matter how hard he tries.

From the moment Vivian appeared in his life on that tragic April night, Nikolai felt himself inextricably bonded to her. She’s completely, irrevocably and unabashedly in love with Nikolai, the Russian mob boss who saved her life. After a brush with death as a juvenile delinquent, Vivian swore she’d never stray across that line again-but there’s just one problem with her plan to stay on the right side of the law.

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