The Bride Who Wouldn't Kneel: A Dark Bratva Forced Marriage Romance

On our wedding night, I put a knife to my husband's throat. He told me to do it. Or kiss him.NORASeven years ago I hid in a wardrobe and listened to a Russian voice give the orders that killed my family.Today my uncle married me to the man I was raised to blame.Maksim Orlov, Pakhan of the Orlov Bratva, is cold, exact, and entirely unbothered by the blade against his pulse.He should be afraid of me. I'm a pharmacist. I brought more than a knife.Instead he says one sentence that breaks seven years open, and hands the knife back.You'll want it in this house. But not for me.MAKSIMI have four hundred and twelve photographs of my wife. She has seen none of them.I have watched her from two hundred meters for seven years, and I keep one rule in my house. Nobody touches her. My men. My guests. Me.Not until she asks.She says she will never ask.She has nineteen days until she inherits her father's port, an uncle who needs her dead before then, and a husband who may be the only man in Los Angeles who wants her alive.She can weigh me. She can pour me a glass and watch me choose.I'll drink whatever she puts in it.Tropes: Dark mafia romance, Russian Bratva Arranged marriage, forced on her Enemies to lovers He watched her for seven years Touch her and die A morally grey hero who keeps his rules A heroine who never needs saving Guaranteed happily ever afterThis is a dark romance. It contains violence, on-page death, a poisoning, grief, and explicit intimacy between adults. All intimacy in this book is consensual. 18+.Vows of San Pedro, Book One of a dark mafia romance series. Every book follows a different couple and reads as a standalone.