Nikolai

Nikolai: A Mafia Prince Romance opens Shandi Boyes's Russian Mob Chronicles. Justine once dreamed of becoming an architect, but when her brother was sentenced to life in prison, she changed course — now she's a first-year intern at a top defense firm, forced to find her footing fast.

Nikolai Popov was raised inside a criminal bratva empire as violent as it is unyielding. The devilishly good-looking mafia prince has spent his life brushing against the law without ever seeing the inside of a cell — until a mix-up in his house-arrest documentation hands Justine's firm the chance to defend him.

Suddenly Nikolai is her unexpected houseguest for the weekend, and the forced proximity between a woman sworn to the right side of the law and a man who has never lived on it ignites into something neither can control.