The Smirnov Scars Series

MARGHERITA

My family offered me to the Bratva as payment for a stupid mistake.

I signed the marriage contract for one reason: Maksim Vassiliev.

The man who carved his cruelty into my skin now serves at my future husband’s right hand.

Marrying Nezhad Smirnov places me beneath the same roof as the monster I intend to destroy… and inside the bed of a man dangerous enough to ruin every careful plan I’ve made.

Nezhad is cold authority wrapped in black suits, scarred muscle, and sinful restraint. His commands make me furious. His hands make me forget why I came. Every kiss drags another secret from my body, and every night beside him makes revenge taste less satisfying.

I entered his world carrying a dagger and a hidden past.

Now the most dangerous man in the Bratva is determined to uncover both.

NEZHAD

The Italians owe the Bratva blood.

Margherita De Santis is the payment.

She arrives in my home with a vicious mouth, a concealed blade, and enough defiance to turn every order into a challenge. She was given to me to prevent a war, yet keeping my hands away from her demands more control than any execution ever has.

Her body responds beautifully when that control finally breaks.

Still, desire is only one of the dangers she carries. Margherita hides scars beneath silk, terror behind sharp smiles, and an agenda she refuses to confess. Something changes whenever my right-hand man enters the room. Something dark enough to make her tremble—and violent enough to make me crave his blood without understanding why.

She is becoming my wife, my weakness, and my most consuming obsession.

Whoever marked her made one fatal mistake.

He left her alive long enough to become mine.

This is the first book in The Smirnov Scars Series. Reading Order: The Scars We Hide, The Scars We Survive, The Scars We Heal.