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Tortured Innocence
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Tortured Innocence

Sarah was innocent when a criminal gang murdered her family and locked her in a cage.

By the time she was found, that innocence was gone forever.
Violated and broken by men who treated her suffering as entertainment, Sarah learned endurance and how to survive long after her hopes of freedom had died.
Her rescue comes too late to save her unscarred.
Dragged from captivity damaged, traumatised, and barely alive, Sarah is given a death sentence by the sadistic boss of the Bratva.
But one man believes in her future.
And Lev Nemov cares enough to defy his brother’s order to kill her.

Lev is no saviour.

He’s shaped by brutality of his own, a man forged by violence and loyalty to an organisation that breaks every rule he wants to believe in.
Saving Sarah is one thing, but understanding her is another.
He cannot force his protection on her no matter how much he needs her to be safe.
Other men stole her choices. He refuses to be one of them.
Loving a woman who has been tortured means accepting that she may never be whole again. That she may never be able to love him the way he loves her — or at all.

u/AnnaHardingRomance — 3 days ago

Cruel Punishment: Book Six Tangled Empires out 15.3.2026

‘I demanded obedience. She longed for romance.’

When the boss orders Dante Ciccotti to take a woman as his wife, he accepts without hesitation.
This isn’t a union.
It’s a sentence.
She isn’t just his bride—she’s his punishment to deliver.

Cold, disciplined, and feared across the Mafia, Dante lives by a single truth:
Control is survival.

He expects tears, terror, and broken obedience.
But the girl does not break.
She meets his cruelty with courage.
She meets his dominance with desire.
And the place he expects her to fear him most becomes the place she begins to understand him.

What begins as vengeance becomes obsession.
What was meant to destroy her starts to unravel him.

In a world where love is weakness and mercy is death, two enemies are bound by a marriage neither chose… and a passion neither can escape.

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u/AnnaHardingRomance — 2 months ago