The Beginnings Duet Series by Myla Carbo

With each heartbeat, she edges closer to the hell he promises, where love is as dangerous as the man offering it. Isabella never imagined her job as a nurse in a high-security prison would thrust her into the heart of a living nightmare. They call him Diable—a nameless prisoner with a presence so dark and consuming it ripples through the underworld like a curse. His true name is Aslanov, a ruthless Bratva kingpin, a killer, a monster—and he is everything she should fear... moreWith each heartbeat, she edges closer to the hell he promises, where love is as dangerous as the man offering it. Isabella never imagined her job as a nurse in a high-security prison would thrust her into the heart of a living nightmare. They call him Diable—a nameless prisoner with a presence so dark and consuming it ripples through the underworld like a curse. His true name is Aslanov, a ruthless Bratva kingpin, a killer, a monster—and he is everything she should fear. The closer she gets to the truth about this man, the more dangerous it becomes. Isabella is pulled deeper into his violent, seductive grasp, where terror and desire blur. With each step, she falls into the abyss, where his love is a cage, and surrender means destruction. In a world devoured by shadows, salvation is a whisper—and the price is your soul. less

The Bratva wept for a ghost while the real monster crawled back to the only thing he couldn’t kill—her. Deep in the belly of a bunker, beaten but unbroken, the Bratva’s deadliest leader claws his way back from the grave, driven by one her name on the lips of the man who betrayed him. Isabella has tried to move on. The man who made her feel alive is gone, and the clinic where she hides is the only place she can pretend to forget. But grief has claws... moreThe Bratva wept for a ghost while the real monster crawled back to the only thing he couldn’t kill—her. Deep in the belly of a bunker, beaten but unbroken, the Bratva’s deadliest leader claws his way back from the grave, driven by one her name on the lips of the man who betrayed him. Isabella has tried to move on. The man who made her feel alive is gone, and the clinic where she hides is the only place she can pretend to forget. But grief has claws. And when whispers of the devil start bleeding through her dreams and clinic walls, she knows that love doesn’t die. It waits. And so do monsters. Now she stands at the center of a war between bloodlines, haunted by a past that was stolen from her and a future soaked in Bratva blood. The underworld is cracking. The Bratva wants a new king. The world wants a body to bury. But the lie of his death will be the last mercy they’ll ever get. He’ll string their corpses up like butchered pigs. And the slaughterhouse isn’t just where they die;. it’s where he makes her his final vow. less