Quote:My legacy is sorrow.
My history is torment.
My future will be chaos.

I wasn't born a soldier, but I became one.
First for the military, and then for my Bratva family.
A new conflict has broken out between the Bratva and their criminal enemies, and our Pakhan tasks me with rescuing the innocent girl taken as a pawn in this vicious game.
As his enforcer and stepson-the Bratva prince and heir to his throne-I'm the only one he trusts. I enter a new fight. I save the girl, just like the prince in a fairy tale, but there's another girl there.
Adriana.
She isn't mine to save.
She isn't mine to own.
And yet . she calls to me.
Stunningly beautiful.
Innocent.
With her long dark hair and that lone tattoo of a tiny bluebird peeking from her shoulder, she's everything I can never have, and everything I want.
Adriana was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and now she's going to become part of my world. I burn deep in my soul with the need to claim her from the moment I see her.
This obsession will either be my saving or both our downfall.

Author's note: This is a prequel introduction to the Bratva Born world and to the background of Dimitri Baranov. The following duet is the love story between Dimitri and his Adriana.