From bestselling author Oona Ryda comes a high-heat, over-the-top Bratva romance featuring an age-gap, virgin heroine, marriage of convenience, found family, and a dangerously unhinged, fiercely devoted JP/OTT antihero. Lev Belov is the Bratva’s most feared assassin. They call him the Demented Devil, the Creepy Clown—beautiful, bloody, and completely unhinged. Where others cower in terror, Lev laughs maniacally. Love, to a monster like him, is an impossibility. Until he finds Elena chained to a radiator in a dead man's house. Elena has survived nine years of brutality. She expects nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears everything. When the grinning killer with bloodstained hands offers her a deal—marriage for protection—she has nowhere else to go. But Lev doesn't want a transactional marriage. He wants her. The girl who makes the screaming in his head go silent. When an enemy takes what belongs to Lev, it’s a fatal mistake. Now he will paint Chicago red—because the only thing more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose is a madman who's finally found something worth protecting. This standalone novella has a guaranteed HEA, no cliffhanger, and no cheating. 18+ only.