Lord of Wrath: Soulless Empire, Book 2

He's supposed to be her protector. Instead, Valentin Constanov is her worst nightmare—and he knows it.

As the ruthless, tattooed enforcer for Chicago's most feared Bratva, Valentin has built his reputation on cold precision and zero mercy. But when Yelena crosses his path, something shifts. She's connected to his world through the boss's wife, close enough to be a problem, and far too captivating to ignore. So Valentin does what he does best—he watches. He waits. He wants.

Yelena wants nothing to do with the Russian mafia, its dangerous men, or the suffocating darkness that surrounds them all. She's fought too hard for her independence to surrender it to a brooding, obsessive bodyguard who treats her resistance like an invitation. Every time she pushes him away, Valentin only moves closer. Every sharp word she throws at him, he catches and keeps.

Forced together by circumstance and fueled by an age-gap tension neither can afford to acknowledge, their collision feels inevitable—and catastrophic. When a genuine threat emerges from the shadows of the Bratva's world, Yelena discovers that the man she's been running from might be the only one capable of keeping her alive.

Dark, pulse-pounding, and laced with morally complex tension, *Lord of Wrath* is a contemporary mafia romance that refuses to play by the rules. The question isn't whether Yelena will fall—it's whether she'll survive it.