Publisher’s Note: This contemporary romance contains elements of danger, mystery, suspense, action, adventure, sensual scenes, possible triggers, and power exchange.The American author Zoe Blake is a highly regarded novelist of romance and horror, as well as being a master of suspense. It is a complete story with a HEA and can be enjoyed independently. This is book one in the Dark and Ruthless series.

Then he’s going to possess her, dominate her and show her what it’s like to be a Bratva Bride. First she needs to be punished till her bottom is blushing pink.

So Nora James Grey is going to be Nikolai Rogozin’s wife. The evil cartel boss he’s headed to see has one redeeming quality: she believes in love and family. But when Nora is discovered, he finds the perfect cover. Nikolai Rogozin didn’t plan on bringing a young college girl accused of murder across the Gulf of Mexico, not with the danger he’s in. The man who owns the yacht is a tall, menacing Russian Bratva gangster covered in tattoos. How can he see her as more than the skinny teenager he brought into his estate to serve him?Īll Nora James Grey needed was a fast escape out of the country, but when she stows away on a multimillion dollar yacht, she has no idea she’s getting a lot more than what she bargained for. But Brielle’s just a tiny little slave girl, a virgin, and Markov Xuxut is a gorgeous, well-dressed billionaire covered in tattoos. When outside forces seek to wrench away Markov’s only child, it’s Brielle who Markov can rely on. The danger that brought them together six years ago returns again, but now it threatens to tear them apart. Brielle’s his daughter’s caregiver, has been for the last six years, and he needs her. It became one of the best things he’d ever done. Xuxut had a motherless daughter at home and he saw something special in Brielle. She was the cartel’s tortured prisoner for an entire year before Markov Xuxut came to the cartel leader’s house for a meeting, saw her and had to have her. He’s also a single father.īrielle Bird’s parents were executed in front of her by a Honduran cartel when she was fourteen. Markov Xuxut is the biggest, baddest Bratva crime boss in the American Southwest.

Cruel Games by Zoe Blake