SUGGESTION

LENA
I was the housekeeper's daughter. I grew up in the corridors of that house, invisible, filing papers nobody thought I could read.
I taught myself a dead man's handwriting when I was seven, because the paper offcuts were the only thing anyone ever gave me to draw on.
So I wrote the twelfth file myself. Nine pages, in the hand of a man two years in the ground. I put it in the post to Vienna, and I sat in my kiosk, and I waited for the man who would have to read it to work out where it came from.
He was never supposed to come himself.
He was certainly never supposed to sit in my mother's kitchen and ask about the boiler.

NOVAK
I have never hit anybody in my life. I arrange things. Give me a week with a man and he will do exactly what I need and call it his own idea.
The file is a forgery. I knew it by the second page.
I got on the train anyway, and I have had six weeks to explain that to myself, and I have not managed it.
She is running my family's method on me. I can feel every move of it.
I am going to let her finish. Because I want to know what she wants. And because nobody has ever wanted anything from me that was not a favour.

She made sure he would come.
He came knowing.

THINGS TO KNOW
Full-length dark mafia romance. Dual POV, first person, present tense.
Standalone with an HFN. Book three and the end of the Bought Peace trilogy.
Forger heroine x Bratva fixer. Cat and mouse. Slow burn. Mutual manipulation.
Touch-starved hero who falls first. Class divide. Found family.
Open door, explicit.
18+. Content warnings inside.