Knives and Vows

For nineteen years, the Volkov and Ozerov families have kept one rule: no marriages, no heirs, no merging. It has held the peace longer than any treaty either side has signed since. Then a courier dies on the wrong side of the river, and Vera Ozerov — shipping executive, cautious sister, the family member nobody threatens — becomes the one bargaining chip both families can accept. Anton Volkov runs security for the men her brothers have been shooting at for two decades. He has no ambition and no illusions. What he has is a one-page contract, a spare bedroom, and a wife who reads every line of everything. Nothing about this is supposed to be real. Nothing about it is supposed to last. A Russian mafia arranged marriage romance about two people who signed a treaty and accidentally meant it.