Length8h 49m
About this audiobook
Eleven forty-five on a Tuesday night, and the emergency room smells of cheap vodka, antiseptic and somebody's burnt dinner from three rooms over. Brighton Beach does not send its trouble anywhere else. It sends it here, on a gurney, bleeding.
Male, mid-thirties. Two gunshot wounds, one through the left shoulder, one low on the right abdomen. Entrance wounds clean. Exit wounds messy. Pupils blown wide and a pressure dropping the way a stone drops through ice water.
Katya Vasiliev snaps her gloves on and sees the tattoo before she sees the face. A blue-and-black Orthodox cross, the bottom bar angled left.
Russian. Bratva.
The resident freezes. Margo reads the monitor out in the flat professional register of a nurse who has worked this room longer than Katya has been alive. Katya presses gauze into the wound, calls for a laparotomy tray, four units of O-neg and vascular backup, and tells the boy in the doorway that the thing on her table is a patient and that is the end of the sentence.
It is not the end of the sentence.
The phone rings later from a number she does not recognise. *Your father is still alive.* *Who is this?* *My name is Nikolai Volkov. We need to talk about your father's debt.*
She has spent her entire adult life saving people. She has never once had to consider that her father might be one of the people others need saving from.
What comes after is a prescription bottle that should not exist, a basement under the Red Moon, a turncoat, a brother making demands she cannot meet, a bank account in her name that she did not open, and a highway run in the dark.
There is a sponge bath. There is a kitchen table. There is a closeness neither of them will call unbearable out loud, which is precisely what makes it unbearable.
A first-person dark bratva romance narrated by a trauma surgeon who keeps making the same choice, which is to stay in the room.
Her father's debt does not end when it is paid. Some of it only changes hands. And even after the last goodbye, nobody in this book is promising anybody forgiveness.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.3 (136)
Includes Goodreads
GenreRomance, Mystery and Thriller
Length8 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
2Chapter 1 - The Needle That Stitches Lies
3Chapter 2 - The Taste of Iron
4Chapter 3 - The Prescription Bottle
5Chapter 4 - The Deli Sandwich
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6Chapter 5 - The Sponge Bath
7Chapter 6 - The Basement of the Red Moon
8Chapter 7 - The Turncoat
9Chapter 8 - The Debt I Can’t Pay
10Chapter 9 - The Reunion That Breaks Us
11Chapter 10 - The One Who Hesitates
12Chapter 11 - The Unbearable Closeness
13Chapter 12 - The Brother’s Demand
14Chapter 13 - The Bank Account
15Chapter 14 - The Kitchen Table
16Chapter 15 - The Highway Run
17Chapter 16 - The First Good Deed
18Chapter 17 - The FBI Visit
19Chapter 18 - The Flashback
20Chapter 19 - The Walls Between
21Chapter 20 - The Last Goodbye
22Chapter 21 - The Brand
23Chapter 22 - The Samovar Peace Trap
24Chapter 23 - The Bomb’s Timer
25Chapter 24 - The Debris
26Chapter 25 - The Offer I Refuse
27Chapter 26 - The FBI Debrief
28Chapter 27 - The Cost of Freedom
29Chapter 28 - The Prison Visit
30Chapter 29 - The Year of Waiting
31Chapter 30 - The Door I Opened
32Epilogue
33The End
34About the Author
35Also by Sabina Cross
36Acknowledgements
37A Note from the Author
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