Merciless Bride

Her father traded her to end a war. Nobody thought to ask what she would charge.

Emilia Barone learns she is the price of the alliance the way daughters always learn it, last. She does not cry. She does not run. She writes her own terms and walks into a room full of men who never planned on her being in it.

Her work continues. Her sister is protected. Fidelity cuts both ways.

Aleksandr Zharov, Pakhan of the Brighton Beach Bratva, a man who has never negotiated anything in his life, initials every line.

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