Vasily the Nail (Baranov Duet #1)
C.B. Alice
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
3.63
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 4 ratings · 363 pages · Published: 14 Jan 2025
I thought my life as a Mafia princess was suffocating, but nothing prepared me for being handed over to Vasily Baranov to pay my brother’s debt. Cold, brutal, and haunted by demons I don’t understand, Vasily is everything I should fear. Instead, he’s the first man to treat me like something more than a bargaining chip.
But I know better than to believe in saviors.
My only way out is to ruin myself. Destroy my perfect reputation, make myself unfit for marriage, and force my family to let me go. Vasily might help me, or he might break me first.
The longer I stay, the more I see the cracks in him. The voices that haunt him. The curse he’s convinced will kill him here in Flagstaff, just like the men before him, even as he refuses to leave. Vasily thinks he’s doomed—but I’m starting to believe we both are.
Fifteen days might not be enough to escape the chains binding us to our families. But it might be long enough to decide if we can risk everything and run together—or if staying will destroy us both.
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Vasily the Nail is Book 1 of the Baranov Duet, which will conclude with an HEA at the end of Vasily the Hammer. The Baranov Duet includes content and themes that could be considered dark even by Mafia/Bratva Romance standards. Content Warning is included in the beginning of the book, but readers are highly encouraged to visit the author's website for a detailed list.
Seriously, this begins with a morally black nightmare. Reader beware.
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Tagged as:
- mafia 3
- dark romance 3
- virgin heroine 2
- m-f romance 2
- age gap 2
- height difference 2
- vengeance 1
- abduction 1
- exhibitionism 1
- breeding 1
- consensual non-consent 1
- masc-dom 1
- contemporary 1
- forced proximity 1
- bondage 1
- tortured heroine 1
- bad boys 1
- grumpy/cold hero 1
- tortured hero 1
- alpha male 1
- betrayal 1
- forbidden love 1
- enemies to lovers 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- rape 2
- substance abuse 2
- drug abuse 2
- suicide / ideation 1
- non-consent between mcs 1
- dubious consent 1
- human trafficking 1
- graphic violence 1
- birth-control non-consent 1
- misogyny 1
- abuse between mcs 1
- abuse 1
- third party abuse 1
- past sexual abuse 1
- child sexual abuse 1
- death / grief 1
- geography
- arizona 2
- north america 1
- usa 1
- Format
- dual pov 2
- male pov 1
- first person pov 1
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The 'Baranov Duet' series
3.50 · 7 ratings
north-america · tortured hero · dual-pov · dub-con · human-trafficking · cold hero · breeding · arizona · first-person-pov · tortured heroine · dark · explicit-open-door · forbidden love · height-difference · mafia · masc-dom · contemporary · alpha male · m-f · betrayal
Baranov Duet reading order and complete book list ❯
