Bratva Bride by Lucky Moon

I should be terrified of the bratva Ice King I’m forced to marry. So why does his control feel like the first freedom I’ve ever known?

I’ve spent twenty-six years as my father’s captive genius—two PhDs and zero choices, a asset he’d auction to the highest bidder.

Then a bombing forces a blood marriage between our bratva families. And Ivan Volkov volunteers to be my husband.

The strategist they call heartless tells me I’m not his prisoner. He notices when I chew my sleeves to self-soothe and recognizes what I’ve been hiding my entire life—that I need a Daddy’s firm hand.

My father will kill me if I don’t consummate this marriage.

But Ivan refuses to touch me until I’m ready. Until I choose him. And when he grounds me through my panic with a pulse-point rhythm . . . when he promises consequences for broken rules and rewards for being good . . .

And God help me, I need him.

Because when my father invokes ancient law to drag me back to hell, Ivan proves that bad men can be heroes, too.