Emilia is tired of performing.

For her family. For her friends. For the city she was raised in.

She didn’t study theatre, but if they handed out Oscars for playing the perfect daughter, she’d win. Every time.

As the Vice President’s first-born, Emilia’s life is made of photo ops, silence, and expectations she never agreed to. Her freedom has a leash, and someone else holds the end of it.

Now her parents have arranged a marriage to solidify a political deal: not with another rising star from D.C., but with Nikolai Volkov.

Heir to a Bratva empire. Stone-cold. Unapologetic. And the last person Emilia ever expected to see again.

They think marrying her off will keep her quiet. That she’ll fall in line like always.

But Emilia is done being useful.

Book One of a dark romance duet where secrets are currency, love has a price, and blood is not thicker than water.

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