{"product_id":"vice-alessa-steel","title":"Vice: A Dark Mafia Romance (Crowned in Vice Book 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMILA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy father owed a dangerous man three million dollars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe paid him with me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne rainy night on a Brooklyn pier, I went from a senator's daughter with a cello and a future to collateral. A line in a stranger's ledger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAzlan Zharkov never raises his voice. He doesn't have to. He keeps me in a glass tower forty-two floors above New York and makes me buy back everything I've lost, one piece at a time. My music. My clothes. My name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery privilege has a price. He sets it. I decide whether to pay.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI tell myself it's a game I can win. That I'm the one in control every time I say yes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the man who holds my debt has started looking at me like I'm the one thing he can't afford.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd I've started wanting him to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAZLAN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was never supposed to be a woman. She was supposed to be a key.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI took her for the one thing only she can give me. I didn't plan on wanting the rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe bites. She bargains. She stands in my house in a ruined dress and refuses to break on schedule.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI don't take what I can buy. So I make her name a price.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen she stops asking me for anything, and I have no idea what to do with a woman who gives herself away for free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomebody in this city wants her dead. The man who sold her to me is only the beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI'll burn New York to the ground before I let anyone take her back.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is the first book in The Crowned in Vice Series. Reading order:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVice.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRuin.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alessa Steel","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":68054844735764,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/0445\/5444\/files\/st-free-vice.jpg?v=1794457271","url":"https:\/\/silverthornsbooks.com\/products\/vice-alessa-steel","provider":"Silver Thorns","version":"1.0","type":"link"}