He took a bride to secure his empire… and found a woman who refuses to be owned.
MIKHAIL
In my world, you don’t ask. You take. I was raised to rule—trained to crush anyone who stands in my way.
Now I’m Pakhan of the Sokolov Bratva, and my first command is simple: marry the enemy’s daughter and end a war before it begins.
Annika Baranov is nothing more than a bargaining chip. A means to an end. A wife in name only. But she doesn’t obey. She doesn’t break. And the more she defies me, the more I want to make her mine in every way that matters. Because in my world, resistance isn’t a warning—it’s an invitation.
ANNIKA
My life was supposed to be mine. New York. Ballet. Freedom.
Not this. Sold off like a possession to a man as cold and ruthless as Mikhail Sokolov.
A man I should hate. Fear. Fight. And I do. But beneath his control is something darker…something that pulls me in, no matter how hard I push back. I won’t surrender. I won’t belong to him.
Even if every dangerous, reckless part of me is tempted to fall anyway.
***Ruthless Heir is the first installment in the Sokolov Bratva series, an enemies-to-lovers, arranged marriage mafia romantic suspense.***
