A Blood Debt for the Bratva Bride

Her grandmother owed a life. Katya is the payment. Katya Orlova was raised for a strange man's house. When the Novgorod bratva finally comes to collect, the debt falls on her graduate year, in winter, in a country she can barely stand. The collector is Ilya Morozov — eldest son of the bratva, three hundred years old, and about to leave her in a safehouse and forget her. On the third night, the safehouse is attacked. Eleven days of siege. One chessboard. Two people who cannot stand each other and are running out of anything else to do. When they reach Moscow, there's a council vote to dissolve the debt and set her free. Katya walks into the chamber intending to take it. She walks out married by choice. The Kuznetsov family isn't done with either of them. Neither is Ilya's own blood.