Midnight Bargain
Jade West

Life’s been a chain of betrayals, from the coworker who stole her career to the bills that threaten her mother’s health. She’s fighting to survive—until the night she meets Rurik Barinov.
Tall. Cold-eyed. Russian-born and feared in every shadow where power is bought and stolen. He makes her a one night at his side, and he’ll erase her debts, silence her enemies, and give her a future worth more than she’s ever dared to dream.
But Rurik’s world doesn’t deal in clean endings. Every midnight she spends with him comes with another price, another layer of his obsession, another thread binding her to a man who never learned to let go.
And the deeper she falls, the more she realizes—walking away might cost her more than staying ever could.
In Rurik’s arms, she’s not safe.
But maybe she’s never wanted safety at all.