The Bratva Empire
A Locked-Down House, Double Life Mafia RomanceBy Sabina Cross
Length7h 52m
About this audiobook
Twenty-two years in one house, and it took a single car slowing at an intersection on Liteyny Bridge to change everything inside it.
The manor has not changed since Mila was born into it. The silence has. She stands at the window of her father's study and watches the last of the funeral cars disappear through the iron gates. The water glints grey and flat beyond the gardens. Somewhere a blackbird calls, and she cannot remember ever hearing one here before; her father preferred the sound of gravel under his own footsteps to birdsong.
Her phone buzzes against the windowsill. She does not look at it.
Nikolai is nineteen, has never sat in a single council meeting, and intends to attend tonight. She has been bracing for that sentence since the priest said the last prayer over the coffin.
At the graveside she had watched the crowd break into small groups that would pretend to console one another while they measured the power vacuum. Lena stood apart from all of it, her worn briefcase clutched against her chest like a shield.
And a man she did not know met her eyes for exactly one second and then dismissed her, standing the way someone stands when they have been trained to clear a room and walk out of it clean.
He is not who he says he is. He has a handler. He has an accent that holds up, a cover that holds up, and a set of instructions that do not include the daughter.
What follows is a locked room that will not stay locked, an offer that smells of gasoline, a dinner that tastes of ashes, a bullet meant for somebody else, and a kidnapping nobody warns her about. There is a dance she cannot refuse and a balcony where the music drops to a hum.
*Because I looked at you in that dress, standing alone against a man who's killed people I loved, and I thought, if she can do that, I can do this.*
Then the gunshot.
Will what the two of them built inside a locked-down house survive the moment his real name is said out loud? Or does Dmitri finish the job he was sent to do and vanish back into the story he invented?
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Mystery and Thriller
Length7 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
2Chapter 1 - The Manor I Cannot Leave
3Chapter 2 - The Spy’s Welcome
4Chapter 3 - The Locked Room That Won’t Stay Locked
5Chapter 4 - The Offer That Smells of Gasoline
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6Chapter 5 - The Dinner That Tastes of Ashes
7Chapter 6 - The Ghosts My Handler Sends
8Chapter 7 - The Truth I Refuse to See
9Chapter 8 - The Woman Who Paid the Price
10Chapter 9 - The Dance I Cannot Refuse
11Chapter 10 - The Bullet That Was Meant for Him
12Chapter 11 - The Brother Who Chooses Fire
13Chapter 12 - The Kidnapping No One Warned Me About
14Chapter 13 - The Safe House That Bleeds
15Chapter 14 - The Handler Who Owns Everyone
16Chapter 15 - The Part of Loyalty No One Tells You About
17Chapter 16 - The Hospital That Sounds Like a Prison
18Chapter 17 - The Warehouse Where My Father Died
19Chapter 18 - The Gun That Held Three Lives
20Chapter 19 - The Aftermath That Refuses to Be Clean
21Chapter 20 - The Grand Gesture That Costs Everything
22Chapter 21 - The Brother Who Finally Sees
23Chapter 22 - The Dance Floor We Build Together
24Chapter 23 - The Fallout That Finally Falls
25Chapter 24 - The Weight of a New Name
26Chapter 25 - The Empire That Breathes in the Dark
27Chapter 26 - The Dinner That Promises Tomorrow
28The End
29About the Author
30Also by Sabina Cross
31Acknowledgements
32A Note from the Author
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