The Pakhan's Reluctant Bride: A Dark Mafia Arranged-Marriage Romance: 6

She can read every man in a room and map the way out before he has finished his sentence. He is the enemy she was sold to marry, and the one wolf she was never able to read. Maeve Donnelly is the sharpest mind in a city that runs on blood and old grudges, the quiet daughter the Boston Irish underestimated because it suited them to. She has read every man in every room and been read by none, and the ones who make the mistake of underestimating her only ever make it once. She is also a weapon her own family forged, a girl who learned long before she was grown that the only person who ever comes to save you is you, and who has counted the exit out of every room she has ever been made to stand in. Now her father has sold her to the enemy to buy himself a season of quiet. Yakov Morozov is the Pakhan of the Boston Bratva, the wolf the whole coast has learned to fear. He has a wolf inked into his arm, a door he has stood guard over his whole life, and a war he cannot win without the one enemy clever enough to end it. He was raised the afterthought, the spare son shaped into a blade and taught that love is only another word for a thing you guard until it resents you. He offers her a marriage that is really a cage, three shipments and a quiet season traded for her hand. And then, on the worst night of the war, with his own house calling for her blood, he does the one thing no one in her life has ever done. He puts a loaded gun in her hand and lets her choose. Locked into a marriage neither of them wanted, in a drafty house full of soldiers who call her the enemy's daughter, Maeve walked through that door to burn the Bratva down from the inside and walk away clean. But the wolf will not cage her. He arms her instead. He waits when she expects him to grab, and he becomes the first man she has ever met that she cannot read, cannot out-think, and cannot stop wanting in the dark. With a hidden war closing in, a brother keeping a lethal secret, and a truth that could put both their houses in the ground, the most dangerous woman in Boston is about to make the one move she swore on her life she never would. She is about to want to stay. One marriage that was never meant to be real. >One choice, with both houses watching and a gun on the table, that will decide who walks out of the room alive. >Reader's Note: A steamy, slow-burn bratva romance with an arranged marriage, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, a possessive alpha who arms his bride instead of caging her, and a heroine who can out-think anyone in the room. No cheating. Standalone with an HEA. Fall into the Bratva Vow world today.