Her Cruel Benefactor

Nine years ago Anya Sokolova walked out of a parking garage with blood on her shoes and a Bratva man's promise that he would kill her if she ever came back. She is back. Her brother is alive, and the only person standing between her and him is the man who made the promise. Dmitri Volkov does not raise a hand to her. He offers her a desk in his front office, three blocks from where she grew up, and one condition: tell him the truth about the night she left. Anya agrees to the desk and lies. Because the truth is an accident, not a betrayal, and nine years is exactly how long it took her to learn to live with it. What she does not know is that Dmitri has been paying to keep her brother breathing for four years, quietly, without a name attached. What he does not know is that she was never running from him. She was running from the only person who would ever believe her. A dark Bratva second chance romance with a heroine who never once plays the victim.