She was delivered to his gate like a debt. She walked through it like a decision.
Nadia Sorokin knows exactly what she is to Mikhail Volkov. Collateral. Her father owes a debt he cannot pay, and she is the alternative. One year at his estate. Then she goes home and everything is settled.
She arrives prepared. She has the layout memorised. She carries a knife. She has no intention of becoming anyone's prisoner.
What she finds is not a cage.
Mikhail Volkov is precise where she expected brutality, patient where she expected force. He gives her the truth about the house, the debt, and himself. Then he waits.
She is doing the same.
The year was designed as leverage. Neither of them planned for what the house becomes when two people who have spent their lives reading rooms and people finally meet someone who reads back.
Savage Trade is Book 1 of The Bratva King, a five-book slow burn captive romance set in the world of the Russian Bratva.
Continues in Book 2: Wicked Captive.
Dark romance. Slow burn. Captive situation. Intended for mature readers 18+.