From USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Alexis Abbott comes a steamy, slow burn to obsession Russian Mafia romance. To escape an arranged marriage, I'll become the wife of a killer. I had to flee the cult, or be forced to marry my own brother. I have no money, no ID, no family. Hated by my mother, disowned by my father. My twisted salvation comes in the form of a beautiful monster with silver eyes. His need for revenge has him infiltrate the Bratva. They demand a rite of initiation. When he tells me to be a good girl and submit, I obey. I'm touch-starved. Desperate for love. And he publicly claims my innocence to become one of them. The Bratva and the cult want to destroy us. But we're already broken, shattered by the dark secrets of our past. And when we pick up each other's pieces Our tortured obsession is made lethal. Forced Promises is a spicy mafia romance that features a touch averse, morally grey antihero and a touch-starved, innocent heroine. His love language includes stalking and touch her and die, and hers includes physical touch and forehead kisses. There are themes of forced proximity, age gap, grumpy x sunshine, mutual hurt/comfort and mental illness rep. Safe from cheating; please check the content warning as there are very dark themes.