Shipped by the Pakhan

Dana Kovaleva moves containers for a living and she is very good at it. Which is exactly why two Bratva families want her — and why the only way to stop a war on the Rotterdam docks is a marriage contract she wrote most of herself. Aleksei Baranov is the pakhan who signs it. He asks for one thing: that no one outside the two families ever learns the marriage is business. He does not ask for her job, her flat, or her time. He asks for her name, on paper, for one year. Eleven months later, a Belgian customs officer starts asking questions and a nine-day stall begins. What Dana doesn't know is that Aleksei is not stalling. He is making time for something she isn't supposed to know about yet. And what she does know is that the year is nearly up, and neither of them is going to use the reassessment clause.