Pay the Piper (Blades and Blood, #3)

Misha: I’m meant to be at my best friend’s side, helping her root out the rot within our organization. Instead, she’s given me two impossible assignments: skate convincingly enough to be her hot-shot NHL boyfriend’s on-ice bodyguard and find a love of my own. The Bratva is my love, and not a thing in the world can convince me otherwise. Until she skates into my life like my very own fire-sprite, effortlessly earning my devotion and forcing me to reconsider my future. Everything I desire changes in a blink, but it isn’t long before she spins out of my life as quickly as she arrived. It’s too late for anyone who wants to keep us apart, though. Abby’s mine, and no man will stand between us and live.

Abby: Anything is better than the hell that I live in, even going undercover to infiltrate a Mafia family on the orders of my abusive husband. My first taste of freedom in a decade is intoxicating, but I have a mission to accomplish. The intense, obsessive man who’s my ticket into the organization seems like the perfect distraction from reality. Before long, he’s everywhere, and my commitment to my assignment goes up in smoke. It’s too good to be true, though, and even when he tells me all his secrets, I hold on to mine. Some things aren’t meant to be, no matter how badly we dream otherwise.