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The Heir's Defiance: A Forbidden Mafia Heir Romance
Paperback
Series: Russian Roulette, Book 4
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Her father offered her to his father.
The heir offered her a different future.
Fiona Petrov came to Palermo to build something that belonged entirely to her.
In a few short months, she has earned a position inside the Marino Syndicate's social network through patience, intelligence, and relationships no family name could have given her.
Then her father announces the arrangement.
Vasili Nikolaev is fifty-six, powerful, established, and capable of giving Fiona a permanent place in the partnership structure. Their marriage would strengthen two families and consolidate an international alliance.
It would also turn everything Fiona has built into an extension of another man's position.
She attends the formal dinner.
She agrees to nothing.
Miguel Nikolaev has spent seven years working from the invisible side of his father's world. He came to Palermo to study the network, track its hidden movements, and understand the people shaping its future.
For months, the most significant person in his intelligence picture has been Fiona.
She reads the width of a room.
He sees the depth beneath it.
Together, they can build something neither could create alone.
But choosing Fiona means challenging the arrangement his father has already accepted, exposing himself inside a world where invisibility has always protected him, and proving that the right partnership is not the one their families designed.
It is the one Fiona and Miguel choose to build beside each other.
As pressure from Moscow grows and Fiona's brother searches for a way to control what she has created, their private alliance becomes professionally indispensable and dangerously personal.
Fiona was never going to accept the future arranged for her.
Miguel intends to help her build the one she actually wants.
The Heir's Defiance is Book Four in Russian Roulette, an interconnected mafia romance series featuring morally grey heroes, highly competent heroines, dangerous family alliances, and love stories built between equals.
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