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The Bodyguard's Dilemma: He Was Hired to Guard Her, Not to Love Her
Paperback
Publisher: Natalie Brooks
Published: Jan 20 2026
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
One Night. One Encounter. One Choice That Will Change Everything.
They took everything from me-my freedom, my voice, my future. But they made one mistake: they gave my bodyguard a conscience.
Irina Ivanov is twenty-three and has never made a choice in her life. The daughter of Moscow's most powerful oligarch, she is a prisoner in her own home-controlled, manipulated, sold to the highest bidder like a commodity. In three weeks, she will be forced to marry Alexei Volkov, a brutal mobster notorious for his violence. A death sentence dressed in a wedding gown.
Viktor Kozlov is a former FSB agent with a dark past and a conscience that won't let him sleep. When he is hired as Irina's personal bodyguard, he thinks it's just another job: protect, collect his pay, leave. But the first night he sees Irina-beautiful, intelligent, and utterly broken-something changes. He doesn't see a privileged princess; he sees a woman slowly drowning, silently screaming for help.
Three weeks until the wedding. Enough time to fall in love. Not enough time to escape.
As Viktor uncovers the terrifying truth behind the Ivanov family, he realizes Irina is not the only prisoner. Her mother-believed dead for twenty years-is alive, secretly held in a psychiatric facility in Siberia, used as leverage to control Irina. Weekly electric shocks. Mind-destroying medications. Two decades of torture to ensure her daughter's obedience.
Viktor makes an impossible promise: he will save them both. Irina from the forced marriage. Her mother from a prison that has become her living grave.
But monsters do not relinquish their possessions without a fight.
As Irina and Viktor begin planning their escape, every move is watched. Every conversation monitored. Every stolen kiss in the dark a risk that could kill them both. Dmitri Ivanov built an empire on control and violence-he will not let his daughter go. And Alexei Volkov, her future husband, is even more dangerous than he appears.
When Viktor manages to crack Ivanov's safe and steal the money needed to free Irina's mother, the countdown begins. A wedding destroyed. A deadly chase across Europe. A sacrifice meant to be final.
But in love and war, nothing is ever truly over.
The Bodyguard's Dilemma is a gripping romantic thriller-a story of survival and vengeance that will keep you breathless until the very last page.
The Bodyguard's Dilemma is a journey from captivity to freedom, from despair to hope, from survival to triumph. It is a story about what it means to love when love is forbidden. About what it means to fight when the odds are stacked against you. About what it means to choose freedom when the price is almost too high to pay.
With complex characters that will stay with you long after the last page, plot twists that will shock you, and a romance so intense you can feel it in your bones, The Bodyguard's Dilemma is not just a book-it's an experience.
Warning: This book contains mature themes (violence, emotional abuse, PTSD), but also hope, healing, and a hard-won happy ending. Not for the faint of heart-but if you want a story that makes you feel everything-fear, love, anger, triumph-this is your book.
Freedom isn't free. But it's worth every fight.
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