A dark sapphic (f/f) mafia romance — Book One of the Volkov Trilogy.

They gave me to the wolf to pay my father's debt.

Catarina Esposito is traded to the Volkov bratva to mend a broken alliance and delivered to a Mill Basin estate — into the keeping of Yelena Volkov, the thirty-seven-year-old heir who never asked for a wife. What begins as ownership becomes something neither woman will say aloud, in Italian or in Russian. But Mikhail Volkov's murder is unsolved, a rival pakhan is testing the family, and there is a traitor at the Esposito table. In a marriage built to settle a debt, the most dangerous thing either of them can do is fall.

Tropes: arranged marriage, age gap (23/37), Italian mob x Russian bratva, forced proximity, dual POV, slow burn, open door.

Heat: explicit / open door, 18+. Releases September 1, 2026 (Kindle Unlimited). Book Two (Vor) follows on September 29.

Content notes: explicit sexual content between adult women; organized-crime violence and firearms; a murder that drives the plot; a captivity / power-imbalance dynamic; grief and loss of a parent.