Burn Me Slowly: Dark Mafia Romance (Pretty When I Break Series, #1)

Alessia Bianchi

I've been trained to be silent. Polished like glass, obedient like a soldier. But even glass cracks when pressure is constant. And now, after a lifetime of being traded like currency, I'm being handed to him. . . Mikhail Novikov. The coldest, most brutal name in the underground world. I've seen what monsters look like. My father raised me with them. But Mikhail? He's something worse. A man carved from ice and violence, whose hands are always bloodstained and whose stare burns through lies.

They say I belong to him now.

But no one warned him. . . I may be shattered, but I still have sharp edges.

Mikhail Novikov

I don't believe in innocence. Not in this world. Not when blood runs deeper than truth.

Alessia Bianchi was meant to be leAlessiage, a pawn in a war that's already buried too many bodies. I expected tears. I expected obedience.

What I got was fire wrapped in silk.

She trembles, but not from fear. She looks at me like she wants to understand the devil before she dances with him.

And I. . .

I want to corrupt every fragile piece she's fought to protect.

This isn't about love. This is possession. Obsession.

And she'll either survive it. . . or be consumed by it.

This is the first book in the Pretty When I Break Series. Reading order: Burn Me Slowly, Break Me Softly. Bury Me Fully.