An innocent girl like her . . . sold to a beast like me. Nikita As the boss of the Bratva, I live my life by a code: Always stay in control. But I broke my own rule on the night I bought Annie. She was so delicate and desperate up on that stage. I'd pay any price it took to own her. She says she can't be bought. But she doesn't know how this game is played. In my world, everything has its price. And like it or not, she's mine now--my property, my possession. I'll claim her. I'll break her. And I'll protect her until the end . . . Even if it costs me everything. An innocent college student is dragged into the city's underworld when she is taken and sold to the boss of the Russian Bratva mob in this stand-alone, bad boy mafia romance from author Nicole Fox. Nikita will go to war to safeguard his fragile prize . . . but when the tables are turned, he discovers that there is far more to Annie than meets the eye. Contains mature themes.