CLAIMED : Empire of Desire — Book 2

He told her to run. She told him she doesn't take orders. They were both lying about what came next.

Lea Rousseau moved into Damien Kavinsky's penthouse expecting three months and a clean exit. What she got was a real relationship, a Russian crime organization dismantling Damien's empire piece by piece — and the unsettling discovery that she's better at his world than she ever planned to be.

Sergei Volkov doesn't use violence. He uses leverage. Investor withdrawals. Revoked permits. Surgical precision designed to make Damien bleed slowly and publicly. When a mysterious woman named Natasha appears with intelligence about Volkov's network — and chooses to approach Lea, not Damien — Lea has to decide whether her instincts are good enough to trust.

Damien can't protect her and partner with her at the same time. He knows this. He still tries to do both.

What he doesn't know: her thesis on stolen art just became the most dangerous weapon either of them has.

The contract is over. The war has just started. And Lea is no longer watching from the sidelines.

Dual POV. No cheating. Cliffhanger ending. Part of a 4-book series.