Savage Hearts: Queens and Monsters Book 3

He's the ghost story Bratva soldiers whisper about with shaking hands — and now he's her problem.

Malek Antonov doesn't exist on paper, doesn't exist in memory, and prefers it that way. The most lethal assassin in the Russian underworld, he moves through the criminal world like a blade through silk, silent and devastating. When his brother's death ignites a singular, consuming hunger for vengeance, Malek follows the blood trail straight to Riley — a woman he quickly realizes is far more than the innocent bystander she appears to be. Rather than let her walk away with what she knows, he does what any reasonable, terrifying Bratva ghost would do: he takes her.

Riley did not sign up for this. Trapped in the gilded prison of Malek's world, she faces a man carved from cold fury and darker secrets, fully expecting to be crushed beneath the weight of his indifference. What she doesn't expect is the electric, infuriating pull between them — or how her sharp tongue and sharper instincts seem to be the only things capable of cracking his iron composure.

What begins as a standoff between captor and captive evolves into something neither of them can name or control. The danger surrounding them is real. The enemies closing in are relentless. And the attraction burning between a monster and the woman brave enough to face him head-on refuses to be contained.

Some cages are built for keeping people out, not in. Riley is about to find out which kind she's in.