Willie E. Tousant

She infiltrated the syndicate to avenge her father. She never expected its deadliest weapon to be waiting for her. Investigative journalist Lillian Kensington has spent seven years proving her father's fatal car crash wasn't an accident. When his encrypted drive finally leads her inside Viper-the private fortress of Chicago's most powerful crime family-she is seconds away from the evidence that could destroy the Tarkhanov Syndicate.
Then Arseni Tarkhanov steps out of the shadows. Ivan Tarkhanov's nephew. His executioner. The man sent when enemies need to disappear. Arseni should hand Lillian over for questioning and death. Instead, he takes her for himself. Trapped inside his fortified world, Lillian discovers something far more dangerous than the monster she expected: Arseni has his own reasons for wanting Ivan destroyed. Her evidence could start a war.
His protection may be the only thing keeping her alive. And the attraction growing between captor and captive is becoming impossible for either of them to control. But Lillian didn't spend seven years hunting the truth to become anyone's possession. To bring down the man who murdered her father, she'll have to trust the killer who was raised to obey him-and Arseni will have to decide whether loving her means claiming her.or finally learning how to let her choose.
A dark, high-heat mafia romance filled with forced proximity, enemies-to-lovers tension, a possessive antihero, revenge, dangerous secrets, and a hard-won HEA.