In this city I’m an easy target… I came to Manhattan chasing Broadway dreams. Now I dance in a club to pay the rent. House rules are simple: dance smile don’t speak. What the fine print hides: I’m up for auction. Tonight the crowd pays to watch me move. Tomorrow they’ll pay to own me. My choices? Be sold by a butcher—or be taken by the man eyeing me from the corner. The devil in a tailored suit is quiet cold and obscenely handsome—scrutinizing me like a problem he intends to solve. Turns out he’s Nikolai Volkov—newly crowned Russian mafia king. In his world power isn’t a choice. Neither is loyalty. Where others see prey he sees something worth protecting. And once his eyes find me…they never leave. He becomes my silent shadow. Watching. Studying. Stalking. Until watching isn’t enough. When the bullets fly and I think it’s all over he speaks my name like a vow. Suddenly I’m safe from everyone but him. He tell