THE ENFORCER'S CAPTIVE BRIDE (MORTAL VOWS #2)

He was ordered to take her company. He never expected her to become the one person he could not control.

When her brother is killed and her father’s criminal dealings threaten thousands of innocent employees, Katya Velenska is given one choice: marry Boris Koravin, the most feared enforcer in a powerful Russian crime dynasty, or watch everything her mother left her fall into enemy hands.

Boris promises protection. What he gives her is a guarded estate, restricted accounts, and a wedding ring that feels more like a mark of ownership.

But someone inside his own family is manipulating shipping routes, stealing security codes, and leaving bodies behind.

As Katya uses her knowledge of the company to uncover the conspiracy, she becomes more than Boris’s forced wife.

She becomes his sharpest ally—and the only woman capable of reaching the man beneath the possessive antihero.

Their forced proximity turns into a dangerous, high-heat connection.

Yet every step toward trust exposes another betrayal.

Boris is hiding the truth about her brother’s death, his family fears the power their future child could inherit, and reliable evidence keeps pointing back to the people closest to them.

Then Katya finds a removal order bearing Boris’s authorization.

Pregnant and terrified, she disappears.

Nearly three years later, Boris finds her in Tallinn with the hidden heir he never knew existed.

But Katya is no longer the woman he could confine behind guarded gates.

If Boris wants a place in his daughter’s life—and another chance with the wife he betrayed—he must expose the traitor inside his family, surrender the authority that once defined him, and prove that protection without freedom is only another form of captivity.

For readers who enjoy morally gray protector heroes, powerful heroines, criminal dynasty family secrets, emotional grovel, underworld suspense, and hard-earned second chances.