Bitter Vow

Three weeks before her wedding, an heiress walks through the wrong gate. The man on the other side has been keeping a promise about her for twelve years.

Elara Sterling knows how to smile with her eyes. She learned it at her mother's elbow, along with how to say yes to a state senator she doesn't love. Julian Valerius is handsome, ambitious and very good at helping. Lately he wants to know what her dead father left her.

Her father was the Russian enforcer nobody at the Sterling table will name. He left her a letter, an amber case and a secret worth burning a house down for.

Kirill Chernov runs the Chernov Bratva from a house of stone and glass above the Hudson. Twelve years ago Elara's father died taking a bullet meant for him, and Kirill made him two promises: keep the wolves away from his girl, and keep her out of their world.

He has kept both. Then she stands in his burned-out glass house at one in the morning, with ash on her knees and his flashlight in her face, and tells him to fix his roof.

Now the senator has moved the wedding up. A rival family is hunting what she found. And the only man who has never lied to her is the one her father told to stay away.

He swore he'd keep her out. She never swore anything.

Bitter Vow is a standalone Bratva romance with:

• A protective Pakhan and the heiress twelve years younger he promised to stay away from
• A runaway bride and a corrupt senator fiancé
• A heroine who makes her own choices, right down to the proposal
• A slow burn into open-door heat, with consent on every page
• A found family worth stealing, a secret ledger and a guaranteed happily ever after

For readers 18+. Contains explicit sex, guns and on-page violence.