Dead Men Don't Burn - Age Gap Bratva Romance

Sloane Veira is a federal witness on the run.Her handler is dead. The marshals protecting her are compromised. And the Senator who wants her silenced knows she is running out of options.So she finds one.Mikhail Volkov has been dead for four years. The world believes it. He prefers it that way. He left Moscow, left the Bratva, left everything, and built a quiet life in a fog-covered coastal town in Maine running a restaurant with twelve tables and no questions.Sloane found him anyway.She walks into his kitchen with a fake resume and a plan. He hires her knowing exactly who she is. Neither of them admits what they know. And in the weeks that follow, in a kitchen that becomes the most dangerous and the most honest place either of them has ever been, the line between protection and something far more complicated begins to move.Then the Senator's men arrive in Calder's Reach.And the man who spent four years trying to stop being what he was has to decide if he is willing to become it again.For her.