Belonging to Him

<p><strong>He doesn't believe in love. She was never meant to be his. But now she belongs to him.</strong></p><p>Maxim is the ruthless underboss of the Russian mafia in America-cold calculating and incapable of emotion. Or so the entire Brotherhood believes.</p><p>Sentiments like love passion even hate? Foreign to a man who built his empire on silence and steel. He doesn't feel. He controls.<br>Until <em>her</em>.</p><p>When the former Pakhan demands one final favor-protect his innocent eighteen-year-old goddaughter-Maxim agrees without question. But keeping her safe means taking her as his wife.</p><p><strong>An arranged marriage. A forbidden attraction. An obsession he never saw coming.</strong></p><p>Anastacia is everything Maxim shouldn't want. Too young. Too pure. Too vulnerable for a man like him. But once she steps into his world she ignites something buried deep inside-something raw possessive and dangerous.</p><p>In the middle of a bloody mafia war Maxim must protect her from more than just their enemies. He must protect her from <em>himself</em>.</p><p>Because the moment she became his there was no going back.<br>And now she'll never belong to anyone else.</p>