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.
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Basics
Mafia Romance
Dark Romance
Vigilante Romance
400 Pages
Standalone
Dual First Person POV
Slow Burn
Open Door Spice
Mutual Hurt / Comfort
Mental Health Rep
What readers are saying about Forced Promises
Laszlo and Evelyn absolutely wrecked me in the best possible way. This was dark, twisted, emotional, and completely addictive from the first page.
Evelyn is running from a horrific past, desperate for freedom and affection, while Laszlo is a morally gray, silver-eyed killer with walls built sky-high. He hates being touched, she desperately craves it, and watching these two broken souls slowly become each other’s safe place? I was DONE.
When this hits it big on booktok, bookstagram, and gets a movie or TV show because it’s a book that has made another person fall in love with the reading again I’ll get to say that I knew from moment 1 it was going to be a smash.
I had tears while ending the book. Laszlo and Evelyn had my heart broken, shattered into fragments and then put it back, healing me in a way that I would have never expected. While the other bratva men used women as nothing but pleasure tool and the cult used women as birthing tool, Laszlo healed a part of me that he never broke. The way he protected Evelyn with everything he had, got down bad for her in every single possible way made me believe more in love and the unique way of magic that happens in one's life when a person enters.
More About Forced Promises
Themes
Morally Grey Tattooed Bratva MMC
Religious Cult Runaway FMC
Touch Her & Die
Forced Proximity
Soft Only for Her
Stalking as Love Language
Age Gap (19/30)
Fake Dating
Touch Starved FMC / Touch Averse MMC (until her)
Grumpy / Sunshine
Bad Boy / Good Girl
Ride or Die FMC
Opposites Attract
Trauma Bonding
Mental health rep
Dual dubcon first time
Praise Kink
His Cock = Her Therapy
Cockwarming
Trigger Warnings
I take trigger warnings very seriously, and want you to be informed if there's anything I can think of that might be potentially upsetting. This is a dark book, and while the romance is built on mutual trust and respect, it is a slow burn to get there. Neither the MMC nor the FMC wants to hurt their lover, but the world they live in is very gritty and cruel.
If you read the book and notice there's a trigger I've missed, please let me know.
Trigger Warnings
Safety Notes
No OW / OM Drama. FMC mentions being in an arranged child marriage and running away from home.
No cheating.
No third act breakup/miscommunication
HEA.
Childfree HEA; no pregnancy / motherhood plot.
No children are killed.
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