Charlie Evans only wanted a fresh start.
After relocating to Moscow, the young psychologist sets out to build a life from scratch — away from the past, away from the unanswered questions surrounding his father's disappearance. Then a patient walks into his office, and everything unravels. Because this man carries secrets that were never meant to surface.
Secrets steeped in blood. Secrets that belong to the bratva.
When Charlie crosses paths with Leonid Makarov — dangerous, unpredictable, and lethally precise — his life stops being his own. Abducted and pulled into a world where trust is a liability and mistakes are paid for in lives, he is given an offer that leaves no room for refusal:
Become the personal therapist of the very man who could kill him without a second thought.
Caught between professional reason and the raw instinct to survive, Charlie must navigate a patient who respects no boundaries, follows no rules — and who has begun watching him with an interest that goes far beyond clinical. The deeper Charlie ventures into Leonid's mind, the more he understands that the greatest danger was never the mafia itself.
It was always what might grow between them.
Because some games are never just about power.
They are about desire. About control. And about the kind of secrets that, once spoken aloud, leave nothing standing.
