Her Ruthless Pakhan

Nine years ago Vera Kasyanova walked away from her father and never looked back. Then he died and left her a debt she cannot pay and a brother she cannot abandon. Konstantin Rybakov is the new pakhan, and he owns everything Vera's father left behind — including her name. He offers her a choice she cannot refuse: marry him on paper for eighteen months, or watch her little brother become the collateral. She signs. Separate bedrooms, formal dinners, two strangers pretending to be a family. By month five they read in the same study. By month nine she stops booking flights to London. By month twelve she has stopped pretending anything at all. Then she discovers she is pregnant, and the man she married for eighteen months tells her he intends to keep her for a lifetime. A quiet, slow-burn mafia romance about contracts, brothers, and the marriage you sign before you mean it.