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His to Break: A Dark Bratva Romance
He didn't ask if she wanted to come. He just told her how long to pack for.
When Kostya Zima arrives at Nadia Volkov's door at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday night, she has two go with the most dangerous man in Chicago, or let her father pay his debt the hard way.
She takes the chain off the door.
It's not fear. It's calculation. Nadia has known for four months what her father did to the Zima operation, and she has a plan — one that requires her inside his building, close enough to manage what Kostya finds out and when. She's not a hostage. She's running the longest con of her life inside his penthouse.
The problem is Kostya.
Cold, controlled, and impossible to read, he treats her not like a pawn but like someone worth being careful with. He gives her information in measured quantities and watches what she does with it. He comes to the library in the afternoon and asks her to ask him something. He leaves marked cookbooks outside her door in the night.
She was supposed to keep her distance. She was supposed to manage him.
She's running out of reasons to keep doing either.
Cold Collateral is a full-length, standalone dark Bratva romance with an HEA. It contains explicit content, a possessive and controlled hero, a heroine with her own agenda, slow-burn tension with an explosive payoff, and enemies-to-lovers heat that takes its time and earns it.
Book One in The Zima Pact series. Each book follows a different Zima brother.
When Kostya Zima arrives at Nadia Volkov's door at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday night, she has two go with the most dangerous man in Chicago, or let her father pay his debt the hard way.
She takes the chain off the door.
It's not fear. It's calculation. Nadia has known for four months what her father did to the Zima operation, and she has a plan — one that requires her inside his building, close enough to manage what Kostya finds out and when. She's not a hostage. She's running the longest con of her life inside his penthouse.
The problem is Kostya.
Cold, controlled, and impossible to read, he treats her not like a pawn but like someone worth being careful with. He gives her information in measured quantities and watches what she does with it. He comes to the library in the afternoon and asks her to ask him something. He leaves marked cookbooks outside her door in the night.
She was supposed to keep her distance. She was supposed to manage him.
She's running out of reasons to keep doing either.
Cold Collateral is a full-length, standalone dark Bratva romance with an HEA. It contains explicit content, a possessive and controlled hero, a heroine with her own agenda, slow-burn tension with an explosive payoff, and enemies-to-lovers heat that takes its time and earns it.
Book One in The Zima Pact series. Each book follows a different Zima brother.
274 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 21, 2026
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May 10, 2026
To my opinion it was a slow burn 🔥 I enjoyed the story .
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