Taken by the Bratva Enforcer

She had six months of evidence. He had orders to make sure she never used it.

Aria Chen spent six months building the case that would end the Volkov Syndicate's American operation — until the night in a parking structure that was supposed to end her instead.

Dmitri Volkov doesn't fail assignments. In twenty years, he's never once left a job unfinished. Then he locks Aria in a safehouse with a directive that has exactly one acceptable outcome, and can't make himself complete it.

What follows isn't captivity. It's twenty-nine days in a room with books on the shelf and a lock on the door — two people who were never supposed to see each other as anything but a problem to solve, learning exactly how much the truth costs when neither of them can stop telling it.

The evidence is still real. The syndicate is still coming. And when the man sent to eliminate her chooses her instead, he doesn't just break twenty years of loyalty — he starts a war neither of them can walk away from clean.

A dark romantic suspense novel. Forced proximity | morally gray hero | slow-burn to explicit | found trust | HEA