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He came to collect a debt. He left with a wife.

Sophia

When the Pakhan of the Dubovich Bratva arrives at my father’s estate, I expect blood. What I don’t expect is him. Ice-cold, impossibly controlled, and looking at me like I’m the only thing in the world he wants to ruin.

He says my father owes him a life. That I’ll do instead.

Now I’m snowbound in his mountain fortress, wondering if the fire between us will melt the winter outside, or destroy me completely.

Because my Bratva boss doesn’t just want a baby. He wants me. Forever.

Yury
She was supposed to be leverage. An innocent I’d use to make her father bleed. But from the moment she looked at me with those wide, terrified eyes, I knew I’d never let her go.

She doesn’t understand what she’s done. How one touch, one word, has rewritten the rules of my world.

She thinks I came for vengeance. A debt. But I came for her.

And before the snow melts, she’ll carry my name… and my child.

This holiday season, our Bratva bosses are taking what they want. These men don’t ask for permission.

They don’t believe in waiting. They believe in claiming. And their women never stood a chance.
Seven steamy novellas filled with obsession, possession, and happily-ever-afters. Expect high heat, instalove, OTT alphas, and pure holiday unhinged fun!

Click now for a series of standalone holiday romances from the same authors who brought you the “Bred By The Bratva” series!

90 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 20, 2025

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Ella Thorne

27 books28 followers
Ella Thorne writes dark, obsessive romance where the antiheroes are possessive, the passion is primal, and love is anything but gentle.

Her books are intense, fast-paced, and emotionally feral. Filled with Bratva kings, captive brides, and morally grey men who don't play fair. If you like your romance brutal, dirty, and undeniably addictive, you're in the right place.

When she’s not writing dangerously devoted book boyfriends, Ella is dreaming up new stories designed to make your pulse race and your e-reader combust.

Step into her world, if you’re ready to surrender.

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Profile Image for april ♡ probably reading smut - safety reviews.
1,479 reviews2,617 followers
November 14, 2025
5/5 "Now we will stay here like this until my cock softens. You will keep it warm and you will stay plugged so it can take. Do you understand?"

TROPES:
-payment for debt
-baby contract
-age gap (22h, 45H)
-breeding
-mafia light
-novella

I pull out of her, still hard, and flip her onto her back, tilting her pelvis so I can quickly put a pillow beneath her. "That's it, angelu. Keep it all deep inside."

Wooooo, this was one hot, wild, and kinky ride! I enjoyed it.

Sophia is basically given to mafia boss Yury by her father after her dad loses a bunch of money. She's expected to be bred and give Yury a baby. What they don't expect, though? Is for Yury and Sophia to fall in love before they even start baby-making.

Our main characters are attracted to each other from the get-go. During their first kiss, Yury notices that Sophia is terribly inexperienced and that makes him want her more. They eventually get freaky, and damn, it was HOT.

This is a novella, so it's a quick read. It's also a one-handed read, if you catch my drift. I finished the book, but the book also finished me LOL

SAFETY:
Virgin/celibate/manwhore?: virgin heroine, no history on hero
OM/OW drama?: none at all
Cheating/sharing? none
Triggers: pregnancy
Kinks: breeding galore, cockwarming, dirty talk, praise, rough sex
HEA?: yes!

My bookshelves may reveal spoilers.
Profile Image for Cydney Reads.
395 reviews5 followers
January 23, 2026
Meh...very repetitive, and although this series has insta-love tropes, I feel that the relationship didn't really grow. Don't get me wrong the words said they grew, but I never felt the emotions or connections truly growing.

Also, Yury used the term bred in almost every chapter.

I'll continue the series, hopefully it goes up f4om here.
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1,316 reviews6 followers
November 20, 2025
HOT HOT HOT! Pure kinky, hot, spicy heaven.

Inexperienced female given as payment to the mafia boss. What follows is a book full of breeding, dirty talking and so much more.

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Profile Image for Chrissy.
712 reviews1 follower
November 14, 2025
A Baby for the BRATVA Boss was an intriguing read with great heat! I found myself completely hooked from beginning to end.
Profile Image for Joanne Farley.
1,291 reviews31 followers
November 24, 2025
Yury takes Sophia as payment for her fathers debt. He wasn't going to but one look at her and he was done. Short spicy read and really good.
Profile Image for Serena Books.
2,018 reviews108 followers
December 7, 2025
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’Navidad. La palabra se me hace extraña. Solía odiar esta época del año. La pretensión, la calidez que siempre parecía prestada. Pero cuando la imagino de pie en ese mercado, con las mejillas sonrosadas por el frío y el abrigo rojo envolviéndola como una llama, pienso que quizá ya no tiene por qué significar lo que antes significaba. Quizá ella sea la parte que me faltaba desde hacía tiempo.’




•Mi opinión puede contener Spoilers.
•Esta destinada a ser un descargo personal no para que alguien más lea pero si lo haces y te ofende, me disculpo porque sé lo que es que te guste un libro y otros lo critiquen.




A Baby for the BRATVA Boss de Ella Thorne serie Holidays with the Bratva libro 2
Argumento:

Vino a cobrar una deuda. Se fue con una esposa.

Sofía.

Cuando el Pakhan de la Bratva Dubovich llega a la finca de mi padre, espero sangre. Lo que no espero es a él. Frío como el hielo, imposiblemente controlado, y mirándome como si fuera lo único en el mundo que quisiera arruinar.

Dice que mi padre hizo un trato. Que le daría un bebé si mi padre no podía pagar sus deudas.

Ahora estoy confinada en la nieve en su fortaleza de la montaña, preguntándome si el fuego entre nosotros derretirá el invierno afuera o me destruirá por completo.

Porque este jefe de la Bratva no solo quiere un bebé. Me quiere a mí . Para siempre.

Yury.

Se suponía que ella era mi influencia. No tenía intención de llevármela. Pero desde el momento en que me miró con esos ojos abiertos y desafiantes, supe que nunca la dejaría ir.

No entiende lo que ha hecho. Cómo una caricia, una confesión, ha reescrito las reglas de mi mundo.

Ella cree que vine por venganza. Por una deuda. Pero vine por ella.

Y antes de que se derrita la nieve, llevará mi nombre... y a mi hijo.


Mi humilde opinión:


Romance navideño con atracción instantánea, diferencia de edad, mafioso Ruso, pueblo nevado, heroe posesivo, soy tuya pero eres mío también.

Este es un romance corto con una heroína virgen inocente vendida al jefe ruso que no parara hasta dejarla embarazada.

La vibra navideña estuvo presente a lo largo de la historia acompañado de erotismo. Quizás me hubiera gustado un poco menos de spicy, porque para mi gusto era mucho, y conocer mas a los protagonistas. El padre termino en rehabilitación fue bueno saberlo porque me pregunte que había pasado con él, me pareció entender que Yuri tuvo algo que ver con eso.

En general la historia fue agradable y me gustó el final.
Profile Image for Michelle Frater.
1,753 reviews20 followers
November 19, 2025
Yury arrives to collect what he’s owed when Sophia’s father defaults on his debt and what he was promised is an heir. That makes Sophia the unsuspecting mother-to-be, whisked away to Yury’s isolated mountain lodge. She’s drawn to the intimidating older man, even as the uncertainty of her future keeps her on edge. But Sophia is no shrinking violet. With steel in her spine and sarcasm simmering just beneath the surface, she faces her new reality with a defiant spark I absolutely adored. This is a textbook case of he falls first, though Sophia isn’t far behind. I loved watching Yury try to awkwardly, earnestly make her feel at home, and his restraint when he learns she’s untouched was unexpectedly sweet. That scene where she watches him through the keyhole? Utterly scorching. Ultimately, it’s Sophia who initiates the shift between them, but once that line is crossed, Yury’s intensity crashes over them both like an avalanche. There’s a very clear breeding kink, and the dirty talk is decadent. The sex gets rough and the tension gets deliciously feral, yet threaded through all of it is a surprising tenderness. Sophia awakens something dangerously possessive and obsessive in Yury, but in return he ignites a strength in her she didn’t know she had. She stops feeling broken or afraid and instead feels, as she puts it, “like a woman standing on the edge of something dangerous and beautiful.” With plenty of heat, a few unhinged edges, and a slow-burn softening of two damaged people, this story delivers both the spice and swoon. And in the end, they get their little Christmas miracle…or miracles.
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6,367 reviews89 followers
November 21, 2025
He came to collect a debt. He left with a wife.

When Bratva boss Yury shows up to settle a gambling debt, he doesn’t take money. He takes Sophia. She’s meant to give him an heir and nothing more, but one look at her wide, defiant eyes changes everything. What starts as a cold transaction catches fire, fast.

Snowed in at his remote mountain lodge, tension simmers into heat. Yury is ruthless, dominant, and used to control. Sophia is innocent but strong-willed, scared but unwilling to break. As walls crumble and power shifts, their connection becomes impossible to ignore.

What was supposed to be temporary starts to feel like something real. Between tangled nights and quiet mornings, lines blur and hearts open. He offers her more than a name. She starts to believe she could stay.

Sophia grows into her power, learning what she wants and how to take it. Yury, once closed off and cold, finds himself protective, consumed, and deeply loyal. What begins with control and tension evolves into something fierce, intimate, and life-changing.

A steamy, instalove, bratva, snowed in, Christmastime romance with breeding kink, virgin surrender, and emotional intensity, exploring power exchange, obsession, forced proximity, redemption, and found family. It’s about control giving way to connection, protection growing out of possession, and love rising from the ashes of a bargain.

The Elevator Pitch: A ruthless Bratva boss takes a young woman as payment for a debt, expecting obedience and a child. Instead, he finds himself consumed by a connection that defies control, obsession turning into something far more dangerous. Set in a snowbound mountain lodge, their story blends heat, emotional depth, and raw power as two broken people fight for something real.
Profile Image for Dee.
5,087 reviews58 followers
November 22, 2025
You might want to make sure to double check that you are buckled up, dangerous men, alpha’s personified, possessive, oh, gorgeous, brooding all the makings of a story consisting with three D’s (dark, delicious, and dirty) 😊. There will be suspense, betrayal, death, darkness, secrets reveled, violence, hope, forgiveness, and maybe even love along the way. Yury sexy as all get out bratva boss isn’t a man you want on your radar, he is dangerous, ruthless on a good day, deadly every day, when he is owed a debt he intends to collect and often he will show up in person rather than send his people to collect on a debt so when he shows up to collect never expect to walk away with something other than money. Sophia is home when they come for her father at their estate a debt, he says it is to collect a debt but the moment he sees her she feels like something more is going on especially when he tells her she will be leverage or encouragement for her father to pay what’s owed and takes her to his mountain home. Yury of course having other motives in collecting a debt and his motives had a name, a spicy attitude, the ability to give him a heir, beautiful and she has a name so she will do as repayment of the debt or so he says but the magnetic pull was there despite her fighting it but the more she fights the stronger the pull but can he win her over, will she there is more to the Pakhan than a debt collector who took her, will he be able to show her just how much he cares, will she agree to be the mother of his heir, and will they find happiness somewhere along the way despite their beginning?
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2,094 reviews16 followers
November 19, 2025
A Baby for the Bratva Boss is a spicy little Bratva romance that takes place during the holidays and finds it’s MFC Sophia Akimova being turned over to MMC Pakhan Yury Dubovich in payment for her fathers gambling debts.
Yury who is 45 years old and needs an heir couldn’t resist the deal when Sophia’s fațher purposed it.
Nestled in his mountain fortress who knows what magic might happen to take away the taint of her plight, bringing happiness into her life instead.
Enjoyed this passionate and entertaining story with its nice writing, well crafted characters, a little drama, and lots of hot spice.
A delicious read!.

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Profile Image for Praline 99.
1,156 reviews11 followers
November 22, 2025
Mafia romance.
Sophia is a young woman living with her father, who spends all their money. Now he's just sold her to Yury, a Bratva boss. When he takes her to his mansion, she doesn't expect to find such a kind and caring man. But she doesn't forget that she's there to bear him a baby.
When Yury comes to collect his debt, he doesn't expect to encounter the beautiful Sophia. In one look, he knows he's lost and that he'll never let her go.
Will Yury and Sophia have a beautiful love story, or will Sophia try to leave once the debt is paid off….

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50 reviews
December 6, 2025
A Baby For The Bratva Boss is part of the multi author Holidays With The Bratva series. I loved this offering by Ella Thorne. Sophia has a father with an gambling addiction. An addiction that has him offering up his own daughter to the Bratva boss. Yury wants a child to leave his legacy to. He doesn't intend to take Sophia's father's offering, but then he sees Sophia. A fire it lit and it goes both ways. This is a fast-paced, age-gap, no holds breeding romance between two people who find love and acceptance in each other. I'm looking forward to seeing what the other authors bring.

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262 reviews2 followers
November 14, 2025
New Traditions…

If you’re looking for a book that’s short on plot and long on spice, then Ella Thorne’s A Baby For The Bratva Boss is for you! It’s a great short read!!

Under normal circumstances Sophia and Yury would never meet. But…throw in a gambling father who puts his daughter up for collateral, then all bets are off! (pun intended.).

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1,237 reviews4 followers
November 17, 2025
A Baby for the Bratva Boss is a part of a multi-author series by the same authors that wrote Bred by the Bratva. I love that series so this one was a no brainer. Sophia is given to Yuri as payment for her father's misdeeds. She's expected to give him a baby. what neither of the expected was to fall in love. Hot and Sexy.

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1,112 reviews20 followers
November 18, 2025
HOLY beauty and the beast. This gave that feeling. Her father messed up, she willingly (he also afforded her up) to save him. And then she is whisked off to a castle with a sweet housekeeper. But the beast, did some wicked things and oh it was so so so freaking good. I can't wait to read the rest of the series. Oh what a great start! No real drama, smutty, spicy and HEA.

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Profile Image for Johanna.
1,877 reviews41 followers
November 21, 2025
Great baby contract story.

The plot was intriguing, exciting and deliciously steamy. World building was excellent and expertly drawn. The characters were what drove the story and they were very compelling, complex and perfectly hawt together. All in all a great read! Enjoyed immensely and thoroughly and highly recommend.

Grab a copy, kick back and enjoy!.

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41 reviews1 follower
November 22, 2025
Another short novel about a horrible parent who gets rid of their adult child for a debt.This one is different though, so many details but they don't feel rushed. Sophia is handed over by her father as payment for gambling debts.The man her life is being handed over to is a Bratva boss. His name is Yuri an over the top 45 year old. He now holds her in his possession. He's looking for her to give him an heir will she be willing? Or will she run and struggle?
16 reviews
November 22, 2025
Ella Thorne has recently been added to my must read authors list. Her writing is fantastic and her characters leave you wanting more regardless of their flaws or maybe because of them. Yury and Sophia's story is one of starting off as forced but soon learning that it's a relationship that is vital as breathing. You won't want to miss this or any of her other Bratva books.

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406 reviews3 followers
November 24, 2025
Ella Thorne has recently been added to my must read authors list. Her writing is fantastic and her characters leave you wanting more regardless of their flaws or maybe because of them. Yury and Sophia's story is one of starting off as forced but soon learning that it's a relationship that is vital as breathing. You won't want to miss this or any of her other Bratva books.

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3,059 reviews17 followers
November 24, 2025
loved it !! love Sophia and Yury... this is their story... a fun fast paced rom/com drama short... Sophia's father owes a huge debt and he gave her away to pay it... what a father... and Yury took it... he needed an heir but, also, wanted her... now, she's in his mountain hideaway with the snow so thick... and the tension brewing... so good !!!.

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139 reviews3 followers
December 7, 2025
✨A Baby for the Bratva Boss

If you love:

🔹Holiday novella
🔹Age gap
🔹Bratva Pakhan
🔹Breeding Kink
🔹Instalove

This book follows Sophia—the daughter of a man drowning in debt—and Yury, the Bratva Pakhan who shows up to collect. From the very first moment, the connection between them is instant. That physical pull? Yeah… it had me squirming in my seat. 😳🔥

I loved watching them finally give in to that simmering tension and Yury’s very clear… need to breed. The chemistry between these two was off the charts, and the way their dynamic unfolded kept me hooked the whole time. 🥵💋

The cozy Christmas vibes mixed with the spicy tension made this such a fun, quick read. And honestly—novellas are dangerous because I devoured this one in hours. 🎄✨📚

If you want holiday magic with a heavy dose of heat, this one delivers.

Genre/Type: Romance
APK: Kindle ARC
Pages: 90
Rating: 4🌟
Spice: 3🌶️
Series or Stand Alone: Holidays with the Bratva, book 2
Tropes or themes: breeding kink; baby contract; instalove; christmas romance; age gap; virgin fmc;
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1,033 reviews
November 11, 2025
Super short and sweet. With the length, they fall quickly and hard. Yury pretty much falls first for Sophia while she's trying to navigate her new living situation. There is a little bit of a breeding kink though.

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59 reviews1 follower
November 12, 2025
Looking for a quick read with a little plot and all the spice this is a winner. Yuri and Sophia are dynamite together. Yuri's filthy mouth had me giggling like a schoolgirl. Ella Thorne you've done it again, excellent read!!!!.

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510 reviews5 followers
November 14, 2025
This is a sweet little story that basically takes up when Yuri settles the debt for Sophia's father by taking her as a surrogate. That's the plot. The author attempts to have the two characters have a connection, but it just doesn't work. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
145 reviews2 followers
November 20, 2025
Oh my. Filthy, delicious and absolutely melt your reader spicy. Inside you'll find a bratva pakhan, possessive and obsessive ott, an age-gap, instalove/lust, virgin fmc who's got a backbone, snark and personality!.

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73 reviews3 followers
November 23, 2025
An older Bratva Boss takes a gamblers daughter as payment.... he wants a child to have his legacy live on. They go to his house in the mountains and a love story blooms from there. The MMC is older and the MFC only wants to be wanted, loved and cherished. It was a sweet story centered around the want of a children.
5,078 reviews28 followers
November 24, 2025
Sophia's father offered her in exchange to clear his debit with Yury, Pakhan of the Dubovich Bratva. Yury had not intention of accepting that offer until he called him and he saw her. He wants her to be his baby's mama but also he intends to keep her.

This is short and steamy read, not a lot to the story.

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1,384 reviews7 followers
November 25, 2025
This quick read for the holidays is going to get you heated up with the spice this book has to offer. There's alittle drama, the characters were written great. I recommend you read all these books in this Holiday With The Bratva series.

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7 reviews
December 30, 2025
A Baby for the Bratva Boss is a fast, addictive mafia romance with high stakes and plenty of drama. The chemistry is intense, the possessive hero hits just right, and the pregnancy trope adds extra emotional depth. Perfect for fans of dark, binge-worthy romance.

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27 reviews1 follower
November 12, 2025
I really enjoyed this novella, it's short, sweet and steamy. If you habe a breeding kink the spice in this is for you!

Yury and Sophia are perfect together.

Definitely worth a read.

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