Ilya’s Bride
A Dark Age Gap Bratva RomanceBy Dahlia Thorn
Length6h 2m
About this audiobook
He knew her voice for twenty-one years before he knew her name. Ilya Lebedev is the family's mind made flesh. Forty-seven years old, silver at the temples, pulled from MIT in 2019 to run the Lebedev Bratva's infrastructure and caged inside it ever since. For two decades he has traded encrypted messages with whoever ran the federal case against his family — a single handle on the other end of the wire, adversary and confessor and the only opponent who ever read him clearly. In early 2044 the tone changes. Catherine Zhao is twenty-seven. An ambitious AUSA with the Eastern District's Organized Crime Unit, she has inherited the Lebedev case from a retiring predecessor and spent weeks reading twenty-one years of back-messages. By the time she sends her first reply, she knows Ilya in a way no one in his life does — his rhythms, his jokes, the shape of the silences he leaves. Ilya only knows her as the sharper hand on the other end of the archive.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length6 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 21, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: The Archive
12Chapter 12: The Kiss
2Chapter 2: The New Voice
13Chapter 13: The 2031 Folder
3Chapter 3: The Test
14Chapter 14: The Confession
4Chapter 4: Yes
15Chapter 15: Margaret
5Chapter 5: The Body
16Chapter 16: The Boardwalk
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6Chapter 6: The Recorders
17Chapter 17: The Summons
7Chapter 7: The Apartment
18Chapter 18: The Penthouse
8Chapter 8: The Watch
19Chapter 19: The Go-Bag
9Chapter 9: The First Error
20Chapter 20: The Discovery
10Chapter 10: The Silence
21Chapter 21: The Choice
11Chapter 11: The Server Farm
22Chapter 22: The Table
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