ALESSIAI was raised to be my father’s perfect heiress, untouchable, unafraid, the daughter who would inherit his empire. But I was never fearless. Not after watching my mother die at his hands, not after years of learning silence was safer than truth.The night Damian Volkov put my father on his knees and ended his reign in blood, my world shattered again. Now I’m trapped under his roof, caged by the man I should hate. He’s ruthless, cold, every whispered warning I ever heard come to life.And yet… his daughter clings to me. Isla, mute and fragile, looks at me like I’m the only one who sees her. Protecting her means staying close to him. Too close. And the closer I get, the harder it becomes to tell myself I hate him.DAMIANI never asked for Alessia.She is my enemy’s legacy, a woman born of blood and betrayal. I should keep her at arm’s length. But my daughter doesn’t fear her. Isla reaches for her, speaks through her silence, and with every stolen glance, Alessia chips away at the walls I swore I’d never let fall.She was supposed to be leverage. Nothing more.But she’s becoming the one thing I can’t afford, my weakness.

Anya Mikhailova thought marrying into power would protect her.Instead, it destroyed her.Trapped in a cold, loveless marriage to Konstantin Baranov—a Bratva prince with a taste for control and betrayal—Anya’s life is a series of locked doors, broken promises,abuses and whispered threats. Her husband parades his mistresses, monitors her every move, and keeps her caged like a possession.But Anya is done being silent.When a desperate escape lands her in the snow-covered outskirts of Moscow, bruised and half-dead, she’s found by the last man anyone expected to show mercy—Ivan Vetrov, the most feared Pakhan in the Russian underworld.He should have handed her back.He didn’t.Now she’s in his world, and his rules are just as dangerous.Yet with Ivan, it’s different. He’s colder, crueller—but he listens. He sees her.As lines blur between captor and savior, loyalty and obsession, Anya must decide: will she become the weapon her enemies fear... or the woman who finally burns the empire down?