Dark Guardian

Beatrix Henderson simply wants to feed him.

Working the graveyard shift at a neighborhood diner, Bea spends her nights serving coffee, baking pies, and believing that even the darkest souls deserve kindness. Then one quiet evening, a scarred stranger walks through the door.

Sergei Novikov is the security chief of Black Ledger—a man who hunts monsters for a living and has become one himself. He doesn't believe in happiness. He doesn't believe he deserves peace.

He definitely doesn't believe in women like Bea.

But every smile she gives him chips away at walls built over a lifetime of violence.

When Bea becomes the target of enemies who mistake kindness for weakness, Sergei makes one decision.

She belongs under his protection now.

And anyone foolish enough to threaten the woman bringing light back into his world will discover why even the most dangerous criminals fear the man known simply as Sergei.

Dark mafia romance featuring an obsessive alpha hero, a sunshine heroine, forced proximity, possessive protector, found family, emotional healing, sizzling chemistry, and a guaranteed happily ever after.