WRONG MONSTER

I was sent to poison a stranger.
I knocked on the wrong door.

My father gambled away my little sister's safety at a mafia card table.
The price of his debt? One bottle of Barolo, carried up to one hotel suite on one cold November night.
Pour one glass. Smile. Walk away.

But the elevator stopped on the wrong floor.

The man behind the door of Suite 41 wasn't my target.
Older. Silver at the temples. Eyes like a Russian winter.
He knew my name before I said it.
He knew what was in the bottle before I opened it.
And he slid the glass back across the bar and told me to drink first.

Matvei Arkhangelov.
Billionaire.
Shipping king.
Bratva Pakhan.
The most dangerous man on the East Coast.

His oldest friend ordered him to bury me.
He said the one word he'd never said to that man in thirty-two years.
No.

Now I'm a guest in his glass house on the water who isn't allowed to leave. He bleeds for me. He gives me his own blood. He sleeps in a chair beside my bed for twelve nights. And when someone puts an open contract on my life, he offers me the only shield his world respects.

His ring.
"Marry me. Not for love. For a shield."

We both swore it was a lie we could live with.
We were both lying.

Because someone chose me to carry that poison long before I ever touched it. Someone wrote my name at the bottom of a hit list. And the real monster isn't the man I was sent to kill.

It's the one standing closest to the man I'm falling for.

Wrong Monster is Matvei and Odessa's story: a steamy, heart-pounding age gap Bratva romance that races from a Manhattan penthouse to a burning yacht in Miami, the container docks of Marseille, and a superyacht off Marbella on New Year's Eve. It's Book One of The Arkhangelov Series and reads as a complete standalone. No cheating. No cliffhanger. A guaranteed happily ever after, earned on every page.

Tropes: age gap romance, Russian Bratva mafia romance, wrong door / mistaken identity, marriage of protection, forced proximity, protective possessive hero, he falls first, strong-willed heroine, betrayal and found family, guaranteed HEA.

Walk through the wrong door tonight.