LEVERAGED
Adult Dark Mafia Romance | Book One of the Entangled Duet
She was taken as leverage in a mafia war.
He kept her as a hostage.
Neither expected captivity to become an obsession neither could survive losing.
Helena Savalenko is brilliant, composed, and entirely unprepared to become collateral in a war between two criminal empires. When she’s taken from her everyday life and delivered into the hands of the powerful Ulanov family, she expects violence, negotiation, and an eventual exchange.
She doesn’t expect Vasili Ulanov.
Cold, calculating, and determined to maintain control, Vasili sees Helena as a valuable bargaining piece—and a dangerous distraction. But Helena refuses to be intimidated, controlled, or reduced to someone else’s leverage. As their hostility ignites into something darker and far more intimate, the lines between captor and captive begin to blur.
Then a rival makes a reckless move that puts Helena’s life in danger and threatens to reignite a bloody family war. To survive, Helena and Vasili will have to decide whether their connection is simply another weapon—or the foundation of an alliance powerful enough to change everything.
Expect:
Dark mafia romance
Captor/captive tension
Morally gray, possessive hero
Fiercely intelligent heroine
Forced proximity
Enemies-to-lovers energy
Power struggles and forbidden attraction
Family feuds and criminal empires
Explicit adult romance
Guaranteed HEA
Book One of a duet
Content note: This novel contains kidnapping, violence, murder, trauma, possessive behavior, pregnancy, and explicit sexual content. It is intended for adult readers.