The Monster's Vow (eBook)

Elena has spent 3 years paying off her father's debt to Viktor Morozov, until the Pakhan gives her a choice no woman should have to make. The last option is Sasha, the enforcer whose name empties rooms, a man who claims her to settle the account and then asks for a single thing: teach me to make my grandmother's borscht. She prepares for violence and finds a monster who makes tea, keeps a stray dog, and weeps for the boy he was before Chechnya took him. Every lesson in the kitchen becomes a lesson in what mercy actually costs, and every night the man who owns them both gets closer to cashing in his favor. She is the first woman he has ever asked for in 12 years, and he is the first man who has ever seen her as something more than a debt, and neither of them is ready for what that means. The kitchen becomes their truce, the borscht becomes their language, and the stray dog becomes the heart neither of them will admit they have. This is a Bratva romance that refuses to look away from the man underneath the monster, and a love story about 2 people who have to learn that softness is not the same as weakness. It is dark, it is tender, and it is about the mercy we extend to the ones who do not deserve it, and the ways it saves us anyway. It is also a story about a grandmother's recipe, a night terror, and a man learning, bowl by bowl, to stir his own soup. Inside, you'll discover: . The debt that comes due and the choice she should not have to make . The borscht request and the grandmother's ghost behind it . The dog she saves and the monster who saves her . The night terrors and the Chechnya he carries in his blood . The girl down the hall and the mercy he offers for free . The Pakhan's dinner and the price of being seen . The kitchen where he finally learns to stir his own soup