Collateral

Sold by Her Father. Claimed by a Masked Stranger. A Dark Mafia Billionaire Romance

By: Helena von Heilig, Scarlett Cross

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Her father lost a card game. She's the payout.

"Has she agreed to this?" Viktor says she'll understand.

She doesn't. Not yet.

By day, Elara Voss is the new intern at Vasin Group, proving herself in boardrooms full of men who underestimate her—including her dangerously attentive boss, Nikolai Vasin. By night, she's driven to a private estate outside Seattle, masked and contracted to a man whose voice she almost recognizes, whose rules she negotiated in writing, and whose control is starting to crack in ways neither of them expected.

She doesn't know these men are the same person.

You know. He Knows. She doesn't. And that tension will destroy you.

He asks one precise question in a meeting, and she spends the rest of the day thinking about it. He moves a chair three times before she arrives at the estate and tells himself it means nothing. She annotates his drafts. He increases her security without telling her why. She says, "I'm in a lot of trouble," and he crouches in front of her and says, "So am I."

When the truth breaks, she doesn't cry. She builds a timeline.

"Was any of it real?" "All of it."

She doesn't quit. She doesn't forgive. She does neither—and that choice is more dangerous than both.

For fans of: Rina Kent, Penelope Sky, Penelope Douglas, L.J. Shen, and Sara Cate. If you like your heroes morally gray, your heroines sharper than everyone in the room, and your dramatic irony so thick you'll be screaming at your Kindle—this is your book.

Tropes: masked love interest • dual identity • who-is-he • forced proximity • BDSM with negotiated consent • morally gray billionaire • power exchange • she-doesn't-know-yet • heroine who reads her own contract

Content Note: Explicit sexual content, Light BDSM dynamics, organized crime, a heroine too smart for her own safety, and a hero who drafts contracts at 2 a.m. because he can't stop thinking about her. 18+. This is not a sweet romance. You've been warned. You're welcome.

Book 1 of 3. Ends on a satisfying but devastating pivot. The story continues in Unmasked—and you will not be able to stop.