The Syndicate Series
Book Three — Dominic & Katerina
I'd do anything to escape my current life, but an arranged marriage to the enemy might be more than I can handle. And Dominic Montclair is proving to be a different kind of trouble.
All my life, I've been the Bratva Princess.
Ordered around, micromanaged, and controlled.
A doll to sit still and look pretty.
When I'm forced to marry the Syndicate boss,
I don't know what to think.
Is this my chance for freedom,
Or is it out of the frying pan and into the fire?
Dominic Montclair is cold, calloused, and downright disapproving of me.
His gazes are laced with disdain and disappointment.
I don't meet his standards, and he doesn't give me a second chance.
When I finally blow up and try to slap some sense into him—
He smiles.
He promises me freedom,
But when I fight back, he revokes it.
Not because he's controlling me,
But because he wants me.
Which wasn't part of our arrangement.
To save my Syndicate, I make the ultimate sacrifice.
I marry the enemy's daughter.
The porcelain doll is the last thing I want in a wife.
She's quiet, submissive, and boring.
The Bratva Princess won't survive this life.
I promise her freedom and distance.
I want nothing to do with the pretty doll—
Until she raises a hand towards me.
When my tiger starts spitting fire after we wed,
I have to adjust my plan.
I mean after all, a wife should sleep beside her husband.
She may instigate fights, rebel, and occasionally stab me,
But what's a wife for if not to keep her husband on his toes.
This marriage may have started as an alliance,
But it's become something else entirely.
Watch me transform the Bratva Princess into the Syndicate Queen.
This is a dark romance intended for mature audiences. It contains themes some readers may find triggering, including abuse from a parent, a mother's suicide (in the past and off page but briefly discussed), patricide, forced marriage, and violence. The heroine's story begins in a bad place for her, but she quickly becomes a strong and fierce woman. The hero begins the story disgusted with the idea of marriage, specifically towards the heroine, but quickly has a change of heart. They never planned on marriage, they never wanted it, but it's what they never knew they needed.
This is not a sane romance, but it is a satisfying one.
If you crave reluctant vows made under duress, the push and pull of enemies joined through matrimony, and a wife putting her husband in his place— Let me introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Dominic Montclair.