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Belaya Bratva #2

Broken Bride

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Gavril Kirilenko destroyed my life when he forced me to be his captive bride.With a single stare, he took me.In his bed of depravity, he broke me.My body was his.To do with whatever he wanted.Wherever he wanted. Whenever he wanted.On the altar, he promised me he would love me and protect me.In private, he made me do unspeakable things.Night after night, I surrender my body to his dark cravings.My suffering became his pleasure—my pain his joy.He claimed my body and shattered my heart.But nothing could prepare me for what came baby growing in my belly.Broken Bride is a dark mafia arranged marriage romance & psychological suspense novel by bestselling author Brook Wilder. Book 2 of the Belaya Bratva trilogy. This is not a This book contains scenes that may be disturbing to some readers.

298 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 20, 2022

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2,864 reviews39 followers
June 2, 2022
What can I say? I loved the action at the end but I had a difficult time getting there. Somewhere after the beginning I felt bored. I had to put the book down and pick it back up several times to finish it. I do look forward to the conclusion.
1,265 reviews19 followers
May 21, 2022
Broken Bride: A Dark Mafia Arranged Marriage Romance (Belaya Bratva Book 2) by Brook Wilder is full of dark themes, violence, with plenty of steamy moments between Gravil and Naomi's ongoing struggle to be together.

The story picks up as these two strong stubborn individuals will have a battle of wills as a heart will be broken when an upset Naomi after seeing what occurred on the docks, blames Gravil for allowing women being abused by the Brigadiers. But Naomi is conflicted as the love and sexual connection she has with Gravil is too strong to deny, can she endure this sham of a marriage to protect her child? Will this broken captive Bride ever receive love from Gravil that she craves or will chaos, danger and lies that surrounds them separate them forever?

Finally Gravil learns why Naomi is so upset and tries to make her see that the Bratva is his life and in order to maintain power certain things must be done, can he make her want him again? As he is trying to bring two Bratava's together, how long can he indulge the Krasnaya Brigadiers until the truth comes out. Once Gravil tells Naomi about his past and the woman who he loved and was betrayed when she tried to kill him, she sees another side to him and understands him when he tells her that he vowed to never love another. Now between trying to bring both the Krasnaya and Belaya Bratavas together, Naomi's past has found her when Jon arrives at the mansion trying to take Naomi by force and calls her by her real name. A distraught Naomi fears that Jon will never leave her alone, frightened she needs to find Gravil to explain, but as she is leaving he arrives and they once again have a disagreement. Naomi explains everything about her past with Jon, her fear that he will never leave her alone and how he abused her but she kept one thing from Gravil, Jon is with the FBI which will play a big part in this suspenseful, dangerous story. Trust will now be broken and Gravil finds he is losing control when Konstantin informs Gravil that he knows Naomi is not Sveta and that Stanislav's Brigadiers have called for an all out war. All he can think of is protecting Naomi and his child as Gravil finds the more he has tried to deny his feelings, he is in love with Naomi. As they prepare for war, Gravil learns that Jon is with the FBI and he is the one that informed Konstantin about Naomi. Gravil is now trying to control his temper when he confronts his wife demanding the truth, as he argues with her about her lies he proceeds to tell her what her omission has cost them.

With so much angst and chaos between them Gravil has this unwavering need to protect her as they will have one time together in each other arms as they give into the explosive passion between them before Gravil sends a heartbroken Naomi away with his trusted advisor Anatoly to keep her safe. As he is trying to gather allies as he is preparing for war, he gets a phone call from Jon and is told how he set everything in motion and that he has Naomi. Now we find Naomi who has been taken against her will leaving behind an injured Anatoly, vowing to stand up to Jon as she is not the same scared abuse girl from the past as she is determined to protect Gravil and her baby at all cost. Will Gravil succeed with the war with Konstantin Poroshenko and be able to rescue Naomi in time or will Gravil lose everything? Now we have to wait for the next book in this dark, violent steamy romance story as we are now left with a cliffhanger that will leave you apprehensive of what will happen next. Will love win out in the end for Gravil and Naomi?
45 reviews2 followers
June 10, 2022
While I found some things annoying in the first book I still thought it was a good read overall. Unfortunately this book was not as good as the first. First of all it was too slow and most of the book consisted of the h feeling sorry for herself and her poor choices, yet she never took any actions to change things. The sex was gratuitous to point of being boring and honestly there wasn’t much progression to the storyline for most of this book. I honestly disliked the h in this book, all she did was whine, cry, and beg. She just acted so helpless and weak throughout the entire story. I was so tired of hearing about her “swollen nub,” baby in her belly, and a few other overly repeated descriptions that I almost DNF’d around the 60% mark.
Her actions in this book were just too dumb; (spoiler alert), you are telling me you had enough sense to steal a car to go tell Gavril something, but the thought never occurred to you to do the same thing to escape, or at least attempt escape? And what’s with Jon? Even when she disclosed her “secret,” I still felt like I was missing part of their story.

I also don’t know why she kept acting like she was so uncertain of her fate after the baby was born. This was something she knew before she even got pregnant, which is why I couldn’t understand why she didn’t put up much fight in the first book. I literally thought that maybe she secretly had an implant or depo or something and that’s why she was so complacent; but nope!
All in all not impressed with this book; I was bored throughout most of the book. It didn’t pick up until about the last 20%.
Naomi was just not the strong heroine I thought she would be from the first book. I’ll read the next, but can’t say I’m eagerly waiting like I would be for most books
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1,517 reviews15 followers
May 19, 2022
This is the second part of Gavril and Naomi’s story. You need to read Conquered Bride before reading this book. This starts right where Conquered Bride left off. Naomi is having a hard time with what she saw at the docks. She can’t believe the man who is her husband would do something like that. There is danger on the horizon for these two. There are some twist that I didn’t see coming. What happens when secrets are told? These two are becoming closer, but holding their feelings back. Neither wants to be hurt. Naomi is especially confused with her feelings for Gavril and what she saw him do. Gavril’s past keeps popping in his head and affects his feelings for Naomi. I am loving these two so much. This may have started out as fake, but it has changed for them both. Their connection is becoming stronger and oh my, the chemistry is hot. The ending was oh my gosh! I can’t wait to read Sinful Brode to see what happen with Gavril and Naomi.
57 reviews1 follower
September 17, 2022
Wouldn't be reading further than book one

I really don't feel like reading it till the end the first book got me hooked up until it's ending I thought there would be a better explanation... something which would defend his sin of watching those young innocent girl being raped by those monsters and he was one of those no wonder. I agree it's a dark reality and truth of world that it's a mafia book based on darkness but still a man involved in such reprehensible and horrendous crime how can he be man ? No he can't for me he's no man or not even villian for whom I'll be rooting hearing his past cliche story and I don't know how his so called background story melt down Noami ? I mean I expect something much more brave from her. How can she watched her husband who is thought to be actually a nice person exporting young girls and letting them rape by his men's. Wouldn't she actually thought what if he is one of those in past ? How it's normal for her ? Seeing a person whom she she can relate so much getting ripped of her dignity and life ? Instead of being Disgust from herself to expect some humanity from a monster and running away she went to him and ask for fuck ? I mean are these people even real and if yes they need to be in menat asslam seriously and people ranting this book 5 or 4.5 stars also. He's equal to those rapist Because he's the one who put those women there so how can he be have happy ending book or even so called love story?
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568 reviews2 followers
July 30, 2025
Noemí sigue en shock tras descubrir el barco lleno de mujeres traficadas y no logra asimilar que el hombre del que se enamoró esté involucrado en algo tan atroz. Pero Gavril no niega lo que vio: sí participa en la trata de mujeres, y lo hace como estrategia para unir las dos mafias y consolidar su poder como Pakhan. Este dato rompe aún más la confianza de Noemí, aunque por el embarazo que ambos esperan, decide quedarse a su lado, sin escapar.

La relación entre ellos se vuelve mucho más tensa y compleja: Noemí está enamorada, pero no puede ignorar la oscuridad que rodea a Gavril. Por momentos lo enfrenta, pero él es claro: su mundo es así y ella tiene que aceptarlo si quiere estar con él. Aun así, la química entre los dos sigue siendo muy fuerte, y el vínculo se profundiza mientras el embarazo avanza. Gavril se muestra más protector que nunca, cuidando a Noemí a su manera y asegurándose de que nada ni nadie amenace a su futura familia.

La trama se intensifica cuando queda claro que Gavril no tiene intención de cambiar su rol en la mafia ni las prácticas que usa para mantener el control. Esto genera conflictos constantes con Noemí, que teme criar a su bebé en medio de ese mundo. Aun así, hay momentos de ternura real entre ellos que la hacen dudar de todo lo que siente.

En el final, Jon, el ex de Noemí que ya había demostrado ser un acosador peligroso, logra secuestrarla, Lo cual va a complicar todo porque él es un fantasma del FBI
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22 reviews
December 14, 2025
The internal monologuing in this book was just too much. If it was halved, this and the third book could have been just one book.

And a lot of the unnecessary inner reflection was from Naomi. She really irritated me in this book. The constant back and forth with her thoughts made me hiss so many times.

Secondly, I’m guessing because she didn’t grow up in the world of organized crime, she doesn’t know the rules and stuff. I mean that has to be the reason for the number of times she puts her foot in it, whether it’s doing the wrong thing or keeping secret something she shouldn’t have kept secret. It’s just a rollercoaster of wrong decisions with her. Kudos to the author though for not giving her a sudden character change overnight because these same issues show up in the next book, and there she does seem to learn how to do better.

For me, this book was the worst in the series, and that’s because Anatoly dies here. His death seems a bit contrived though, because he should have had on a bulletproof vest for God’s sake. They were at war!!! And to die from a gunshot wound to the chest, that just seemed very sloppy for a second-in-command position in the Bratva.

Anyway, it was such a shocking and painful way to end the book, and I give the author props for that. I really liked him and was gutted by his death. Should have seen it coming though once Gavril ordered him not to die a couple of scenes earlier 😞
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145 reviews1 follower
May 23, 2022
WoW! I thoroughly enjoyed this book about Gavril & Naomi. There is so much going on in this book, or I should say series. There are so many twist & turns, along with action, adventures, pain, sorrow, anxiousness, can't forget the hot sex & more sex, building of trust, happiness, friendships and relationships. We even experience the emotions of fear, hate anf finally love.

I'm looking forward to the next book. Naomi is trying to stay alive, but wants Gavril to call her by her given name, Naomi, and stop calling her, Sevta Orlov, her fake identity. Gavril is worried about bring the Krasnaya & Belaya Bratvas together under his power. The Krasnaya Bratva must not find out Sevta is dead and Naomi is not Sevta.

Since I knew this book was the second in the Belaya Bratva Series, I went and started with first book in the Series before I read this book. I'm so glad I did! It made the who Series come alive and make sense. Its hard when the books have cliffhanhers especially when the books/series are extremely good. But, as long as I don't have to wait to long to get to the book, I'm okay withit.

I received a free copy of this book for an honest review. I would recommend this book to anybody who enjoys Vigilant Justice, Kidnapping Crime Fiction and romance suspense books plus likes to be entertained. It'll be well worth your time to read this book!
915 reviews13 followers
May 20, 2022
I'm so loving Naomi and Gavril's story! This one started off a little slow with a few repetitive parts but once it got going it really took off. Naomi was her usual spitfire self. She seems to get herself into these predicaments without even trying. Gavril was a little hypocritical in this one. Getting mad at Naomi for doing the same things he's doing. I did like getting to see the softer side of Gavril when he was willing to show that to Naomi. I do think they made some strides towards figuring out a future together and I look forward to seeing how they figure all that out. All the excitement towards the end of the story really had me on my toes. What is going to happen now?!? This was a very entertaining and enjoyable read. I really like Naomi and Gavril together and I'm really looking forward to the next book because I needed to know what happens!! I would definitely recommend it!
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302 reviews2 followers
November 11, 2022
3.5 or 4 stars. I felt that the gavril will be like I can't live without Naomi and then two sentences later, on the same freaking page, be like I need to get rid of her. Even thoughts of Killing her. It got old fast. I'm like make up your mind! Also this is pretty dark, the scene she witnesses down at the docks with the trafficking is awful. I read a lot of mafia books but I swear they characters are in the "good" mafia....drugs, arms, gambling, etc.
..because I don't read many books that has trafficking. So I don't know about gavril. But I feel like this could have been condensed into two books. Also, I don't know why Naomi didn't tell him about Jon being fbi after she told him about the assault. Girl, no wonder he is pissed at you. I don't know if she thought he would get rid of her or what but that was not explained well.
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4,225 reviews35 followers
February 5, 2023
She should have told him everything.

This is book two in the Belaya Bratva series, please be sure to read book one before reading this book. Gavril thought he had a way to win over the remaining members of the Krasnaya Bratva when he married Sveta Orlov, too bad his man kidnapped the wrong girl and now that he knows the truth he has to go to war against the Krasnaya Bratva. What he didn't realize is that Naomi has even more secrets than just not being Sveta Orlov and she should have told him everything when she had the chance. This series is awesome so far and I'm looking forward to reading book three, Sinful Bride to find out how it all ends.
621 reviews2 followers
May 20, 2022
When Naomi goes to deliver some exciting new to Gavril, she witnesses something she never should have seen. It's something she isn't sure she can ever get over. With danger lurking Gavril thinks he is doing the best by sending Naomi away with his best guard, but he doesn't realize the danger she's in. More information is learned about Naomi's past and Gavril is furious when he learns it. Can they forgive each other and move on, or will the past catch up to them and destroy everything?

Such an entertaining read! Can't wait for the conclusion!
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1,533 reviews3 followers
September 12, 2022
Excellent

A fantastic read there is never a dull moment Naomi and Gavril have so much baggage between them it makes it difficult for either to love but the chemistry between them says differently. Both have so many secrets that can cause the other harm and the emotional trauma between them is off the charts. Her stalker has made an appearance and is a huge threat to her and to him and there is a war brewing between the Mafia's that he was trying to join together. We are left with a huge cliff hanger can't wait to read the final book.
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373 reviews3 followers
July 26, 2022
Looking for a good mafia series

This was book 2 and it had so much going on with Naomi being kidnapped and forced to marry the Pakhan, he figures out that she isn't who she said n she was but at this point they are attracted to each other, and then she ends up pregnant, but she has a stalker and at the end of book 2 a huge secret comes out that will have huge consequences for both of them.
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666 reviews2 followers
May 24, 2022
This is the second book in the Belaya Bratva series, you need to read Conquered Bride first. Fast paced story that keeps you wanting more. Lots of action and adventure, danger and suspense. It does end on a cliffhanger, so looking forward to the next book to see where Gavril and Naomi's story goes.
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860 reviews2 followers
December 31, 2022
The story is good but I have to say that I’m a little bored. It’s so repetitive. She loves him and gives him everything, he also loves her but doesn’t want her to be his weakness, they have sex and he doesn’t know how to be both the “pakhan”and her husband. I’m starting book 3 because I need this to end
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114 reviews
June 25, 2022
this was the same thing as the first book. same problems over and over and AGAIN left off on a cliffhanger. but i’m not reading the third book bc this was just horrible. not what i wanted when i read the sypnosis

xoxo alyssa🦋✨
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1,156 reviews7 followers
July 23, 2022
tangle love

This series definitely will keep you reading. Belaya Bratva with Gavril and Naomi is one that has s deep and dark but love is tangled with chemistry. A connection that change from enemy to lovers and so much more.
293 reviews
August 13, 2022
Cliffhanger....3.5 Stars!

Stretched out in so many repetitive lines that it was easy to skip a lot especially the sex scenes. I was getting bored but I think it’s going to be more interesting and exciting in the next book. I hope.
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2,982 reviews11 followers
September 11, 2022
Great

Naomi and Gavril. This book was great. The characters were great. The plot has twists that will keep you turning those pages.

His enemy was coming for him.
So much was going on.

Read it to find out what is happening.
662 reviews
October 13, 2022
Action packed

Get through the will they won't they. Will he won't be and you're In for a good read. There is loads of action . More from Naomi this time. Read the first book though to get caught up.
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637 reviews6 followers
May 24, 2022
Action, adventure, danger and suspense! Everything a good mafia book needs. The story ends with a cliffhanger so I am looking forward to see what is in store for Naomi and Gavril.
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June 14, 2022
Could not put down was a very good read
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188 reviews2 followers
June 17, 2022
I would have never thought that this book would be worse than the first one, but it was.
873 reviews3 followers
December 25, 2022
Great book

I loved this book as much as I loved book 1. I cannot wait to read more of Ms Wilders books, 8cluding book 3 in this series.
70 reviews1 follower
February 5, 2023
Broken bride.

I got to page 102 and didn't think I could carry on reading! I was heartbroken for poor Naomi and could barely see through my tears, talk about emotional!
82 reviews
September 16, 2024
Distrust, Mistrust!

Fear distrust and lies rule the story. Humiliation and mistrust lead the main characters thru a twisted story. Where do they go.from here and what is next.
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