Hostage of the Bratva King

The sapphire around Marisol Reyes's neck is worth more than her shop, her house, and the five generations of her family buried behind the church. It also belongs to Kirill Antonov. He takes her at closing time. He locks her in a house on the marsh where the water is louder than the screams. He wants to know who killed his mother in 1991, and he wants the necklace back around a different woman's throat. Marisol has eight days to prove she's not the thief he's looking for. She doesn't beg. She doesn't run. She starts negotiating — for the truth, for her freedom, and eventually for the man who owns half of Moscow and now the town where she grew up. A dark, captive age gap bratva romance with a Southern gothic pulse.