He circled her like a predator assessing his latest acquisition. Nikolai Markov, the Pakhan even monsters feared. His voice was winter itself, cold and absolute. “Your life is not yours to bargain with anymore.” His gloved hand caught her chin, forcing her to meet a gaze as stormy and merciless as his soul. “From this moment, little ghost, you belong to me.”Anya Koslov, the daughter of a disgraced detective was sold to settle a debt, becoming the Blood Tithe to the most powerful Bratva in Moscow. She is now a commodity of Nikolai Markov, a Pakhan so cold that even monsters feared his name.Thrown into his luxuriously lethal world, the only weapon she has left was her unbreakable will to save her brother. But the cold, brutal Pakhan is not the man she expected. Behind his cruelty lies a haunted past, and in his darkest moments, she begins to see a reflection of her own brokenness.Anya finds herself trapped between the deadly war ignited by a rival king, Alexei Volkov, and Nikolai's scorned ex-fiancee, Katya, plotting her downfall. Her source of protection buried with the master she loathes. She was bought with blood. Now, she must decide between freedom, or devotion to the man who kept her on her knees.

Ivy Rowan had always been invisible. Starved, beaten, and silenced by the family that stole her inheritance. When her uncle's debts catch up to him, she becomes the payment. He sold her to Dorian Vale, the billionaire mafia lord cursed to bury every woman he marries.Twelve brides. Twelve graves. All within a year.Dorian doesn't expect his thirteenth bride to last any longer. She's fragile, and flinches at every sound. Her weakness annoys him. She never fights back and barely speaks. But then he notices something strange. She doesn't fear him.And that wakes something in him he thought was long dead.It turns out the curse isn't supernatural.It's murder.Someone is killing the brides!And the killer has already chosen their next victim.Dorian has never saved anyone. Ivy has never been worth saving. Will Dorian’s cold heart thaw in time to save her?Or Will Ivy become the final victim of his curse?