Dove Season

The landlord fixed the radiator himself. Dove didn't ask why a man in a twelve-thousand-dollar coat knew how to bleed a valve. Three weeks later the federal government asked her to testify about a piano. Matvei Zharkov is fifty-two, moves other people's money for a living, and offers her three options in a diner: money, distance, or an alibi. Dove takes the alibi, which means the photographers, the dinners, and the ring that lives in a drawer — and means the Ryzhov crew learns her name. What nobody knows is that his ledger has been sewn under a piano lid in her shop for six months. A capo age gap bratva romance about a woman who was never collateral and a man who finds out too late.