Wolf's Gambit

by Cora Evans

Valentin Wolfram is the king of Glasgow's criminal underworld, a ruthless strategist who rules his empire with cold, calculated control. When a brilliant ghost hacker known only as 'Xenia' begins to systematically dismantle his operations, he unleashes all his resources to hunt her down. But Valentin doesn't want to eliminate the ghost in his machine—he wants to own her.

Xenia Yotov is a digital phantom, driven by a decade of guilt to wage a one-woman war against the corrupt and powerful. But when her crusade puts her in the crosshairs of the city's most dangerous man, she finds herself facing an enemy unlike any she has ever known.

Blackmailed into servitude, Xenia becomes a prisoner in Valentin's gilded cage, her skills now a weapon in his arsenal. Forced into a tense and dangerous proximity, their cold war of wills begins to thaw, eroded by shared threats and a raw, undeniable attraction. When an external attack shatters their fragile stalemate, they are thrown together in the chaos, forced to trust each other to survive.

Will the woman who sought to be his ruin become his only salvation? And in a world of violence and betrayal, can a bond forged in hatred ever become love?

204 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 28, 2025