New from Alexis Abbott

From USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Alexis Abbott comes a steamy, slow burn to obsession Russian Mafia romance.

To escape an arranged marriage, I'll become the wife of a killer.

I had to flee the cult, or be forced to marry my own brother. I have no money, no ID, no family. Hated by my mother, disowned by my father. My twisted salvation comes in the form of a beautiful monster with silver eyes.

His need for revenge has him infiltrate the Bratva. They demand a rite of initiation; when he tells me to be a good girl and submit, I obey. I'm touch-starved, desperate for love, and he publicly claims my innocence to become one of them.

The Bratva and the cult want to destroy us, but we're already broken, shattered by the dark secrets of our past, and when we pick up each other's pieces, our tortured obsession is made lethal.

Forced Promises is a spicy mafia romance that features a touch averse, morally grey antihero and a touch-starved, innocent heroine. His love language includes stalking and touch her and die, and hers includes physical touch and forehead kisses. There are themes of forced proximity, age gap, grumpy x sunshine, mutual hurt/comfort and mental illness rep.

I don’t use his safeword, until he kidnaps me…
The lure of his dominance is intoxicating. Submitting to him is addictive.
But I’ve seen the toll a bad boy can take on a woman. One-night of explosive pleasure, and then I flee.
I’m unaware of the deadly power he wields outside the bedroom. The mafia family he belongs to would put my parent’s criminal empire to shame. Lurking behind his captivating smile is the seething snarl of an assassin.
I thought I’d escaped.
Instead, I wake up in a room surrounded by one-way mirrors. His triumphant growl twists my soul into knots and makes my heart race with desire. He says he knows what’s good for me, but the ropes around my wrist beg to differ.
He promises he’ll protect me from the wrath of my family.
All I have to do is vow to be his.
Forever.