
The Enforcer's Queen
A Stolen Identity, Ransom Demand Mafia RomanceBy Sabina CrossLength8h 34m
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Leona is a woman with seventeen cracks counted in one ceiling and a brother who gambles. Mikhail is the man sent to collect what the brother owes.
*You lost how much?*
She presses the phone so hard against her ear the plastic creaks. On the ceiling above her bed a crack branches from the light fixture toward the water stain in the corner. She has counted seventeen of them in this apartment. Seventeen ways the building is coming down around her.
*Lee. Lee, listen.* Luca's voice comes through thin and ragged, cut with the wet sound of a barroom. Glasses clinking. A jukebox playing something with a slide guitar. *It's not as bad as it sounds.*
*Not as bad.*
She stands, crosses the twelve feet of linoleum to the kitchen counter and grabs the edge. The laminate is peeling near the sink, a brown curl of fake wood grain she has been meaning to fix for six months.
*That's your tuition. Ma's gonna kill you.*
His laugh comes out desperate, a little too high. *She won't find out. I got a plan.*
*A plan. You had a plan tonight.*
What follows: a debt collector's invitation, a penthouse that functions as a cage, the burden carried by a man who does the collecting, a first crack in an alliance, a betrayal wearing a familiar face, a reckoning on a roof, and a trap that snaps shut on everybody at once.
*Say see you later. Say I'll find you. Say anything but goodbye.*
*You could have copied the files.*
*I could have. I didn't.*
She lies cleanly, the way he taught her. Keep it simple, keep it boring, do not decorate.
Will the arrangement they built in that penthouse hold once the files surface and both organisations want the same answer? Or does Leona take the clean exit she has been offered, get her brother out of the state, and say the one word she has been refusing to say?
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
2Chapter 1 - The Phone Call I Never Should Have Answered
3Chapter 2 - The Debt Collector’s Invitation
4Chapter 3 - The Penthouse Cage
5Chapter 4 - The Enforcer’s Burden
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6Chapter 5 - The First Crack in the Armor
7Chapter 6 - The Betrayal That Wears a Familiar Face
8Chapter 7 - The Reckoning on the Rooftop
9Chapter 8 - The Trap Snaps Shut
10Chapter 9 - The Fever and the Veil
11Chapter 10 - The Confession in a Whisper
12Chapter 11 - The Bloody Corridor
13Chapter 12 - The Raft of the Damned
14Chapter 13 - The Foundry’s Empty Throne
15Chapter 14 - The Bargain with the Devil’s Fool
16Chapter 15 - The Ashes of the Iron King
17Chapter 16 - The Decision That Costs Everything
18Chapter 17 - The Exchange on the Frozen Lake
19Chapter 18 - The Narrowest Edge of Survival
20Chapter 19 - The Cage of Good Intentions
21Chapter 20 - The Long Game in a Short Cage
22Chapter 21 - The Queen’s Gambit
23Chapter 22 - The Vault Under the Tower
24Chapter 23 - The Tilted Tables
25Chapter 24 - The Testimony of Broken Men
26Chapter 25 - The Grace of Time
27Chapter 26 - The Thaw
28Chapter 27 - The Return of the King Unmade
29Chapter 28 - The Quiet After the War
30Chapter 29 - The Wedding on the Ice’s Edge
31Chapter 30 - The Shadow in the Water
32Chapter 31 - The Promise to Stay Alive
33About the Author
34The End
35About the Author
36Also by Sabina Cross
37Acknowledgements
38A Note from the Author