The Sorokin Bratva Series by Cora J Riley

She witnessed a murder. He should have killed her. Instead, he took her. Alyssa Mercer has survived worse than a dead-end bartending job and a mountain of her father’s debts. She’s tough, filthy-mouthed, and hasn’t let anyone close in three years. So when she stumbles into an alley and watches a bratva execution in progress, she does what any rational person would do. She cracks a joke. Dominik Sorokin is the pakhan of New York’s most dangerous bratva. Ice-cold. Ruthless... moreShe witnessed a murder. He should have killed her. Instead, he took her. Alyssa Mercer has survived worse than a dead-end bartending job and a mountain of her father’s debts. She’s tough, filthy-mouthed, and hasn’t let anyone close in three years. So when she stumbles into an alley and watches a bratva execution in progress, she does what any rational person would do. She cracks a joke. Dominik Sorokin is the pakhan of New York’s most dangerous bratva. Ice-cold. Ruthless. He hasn’t laughed in three years. The woman in the alley should be a loose end — a witness to eliminate. But something in his chest says no. So instead of a bullet, he gives her a locked room and a problem: she’s seen too much to leave. Eight days. That’s how long he plans to keep her while he figures out what to do. Eight days of a bartender who turns every threat into a dare and a mob boss who’s losing a war he didn’t know he was fighting. “I could make you beg. ”. “Promises, promises. ”. Because here’s the thing Dom didn’t anticipate: Alyssa has been single for three years, he’s devastatingly attractive, and his attempts at intimidation sound an awful lot like foreplay. Every threat he makes, she calls. Every bluff he raises, she matches. And every time he gets meaner — because control is the only language he has — she gets closer to the man underneath the ice. She’s supposed to be afraid of him. She’s not. She’s supposed to want to escape. She doesn’t. And he’s supposed to let her go. He can’t. Taken by the Bratva Boss is a full-length dark romance with a sharp-tongued heroine, a possessive hero, and a slow burn that combusts. Book 1 of The Sorokin Bratva Series. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed. less

He sees everything. Except her. Nikolai Sorokin is the bratva’s strategist. He reads people the way other people read books — cataloguing tells, predicting behaviour, seeing patterns where everyone else sees chaos. He has never met a person he couldn’t decode. Then Cara Mercer starts showing up on Saturdays. She’s twenty-two. She works in a bookshop... moreHe sees everything. Except her. Nikolai Sorokin is the bratva’s strategist. He reads people the way other people read books — cataloguing tells, predicting behaviour, seeing patterns where everyone else sees chaos. He has never met a person he couldn’t decode. Then Cara Mercer starts showing up on Saturdays. She’s twenty-two. She works in a bookshop. She reads in the library and helps the cook make soup and smiles at everyone and calls him by his first name and he has categorised her sweet, young, off-limits. Filed and forgotten. Except Cara Mercer has been watching him for months. She knows when his jaw tightens (he wants to touch her). She knows when he leaves a room (he was about to touch her). She knows every tell, every pattern, every wall he’s built. And she has a plan to tear them all down. The motorcycle. The leather jacket. The dress she shouldn’t have worn. The question she asked at three in the morning. The night she sat on his lap when there were three empty chairs. Nik is the smartest man in the room. Cara is the woman who outplayed him with a smile and a sundress. He calls her “little one. ” She’s anything but. Two mistakes. Two nights he can’t take back. One woman he can’t stop wanting. And a threat neither of them saw coming. Broken by the Bratva Strategist is a full-length dark romance featuring a quiet heroine with a devastating long game, a hero who counts everything except the days he’s falling, and two mistakes that change everything. Book 2 of The Sorokin Bratva Series. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed. less

She was sent to destroy them. She fell for the one man she couldn’t fool. Nadia Lazareva was raised as a weapon. Trained from childhood by a fallen bratva boss, she has one mission: infiltrate the Sorokin compound, gather intelligence, and enable the assault that will finally destroy the family that crushed her father’s empire. The cover is simple. A bartender. A fake name. A sad story about a bad relationship. She’ll pour their drinks, earn their trust, and map the defences from the inside... moreShe was sent to destroy them. She fell for the one man she couldn’t fool. Nadia Lazareva was raised as a weapon. Trained from childhood by a fallen bratva boss, she has one mission: infiltrate the Sorokin compound, gather intelligence, and enable the assault that will finally destroy the family that crushed her father’s empire. The cover is simple. A bartender. A fake name. A sad story about a bad relationship. She’ll pour their drinks, earn their trust, and map the defences from the inside. She wasn’t supposed to find a home. He knew she was lying from the first night. Ilya Volkov has been the Sorokin family’s enforcer for twenty years. A former Spetsnaz soldier, he reads threats for a living—and the new bartender is the most dangerous thing he’s ever encountered. Not because of the fighter’s stance she doesn’t know she’s wearing. Not because of the room-scanning she can’t turn off. Because she laughs—really laughs—when he makes a joke he didn’t know he was capable of making. Because she says you’re not a tool and means it. Because the enforcer who has spent two decades feeling nothing is feeling something, and the something has green eyes and a fabricated past and is going to get them all killed. He should report her. He should turn her in. Instead, he drives across Brooklyn at two in the morning to return her jacket. When the truth detonates, it will destroy everything—the trust she’s built, the family she’s found, and the man whose bed she’s been sharing while mapping the coordinates of his death. Unless the weapon misfires. Unless the spy defects. Unless the woman who was built to destroy chooses, for the first time in her life, to protect. Ruined by the Bratva Enforcer is a full-length dark romance featuring an undercover heroine, a gruff age-gap hero who communicates in monosyllables and acts of service, and a betrayal that nearly destroys them both. Book Three of The Sorokin Bratva Series. Standalone readable. HEA guaranteed. less