Broken Crown

Name: Broken Crown
Author: Rowan Reid

63 pages

SOFIYA
I remember the desert. The blood. The men who left me to die.
My name is Sofiya. Ten years ago, I was a fifteen-year-old girl they tortured and abandoned in the sand. I’ve spent every day since becoming a weapon. Every smile is a lie. Every dance at the club they own brings me closer to the men who destroyed me.
They don’t recognize me.
Except him.
Volk. The Pakhan’s second-in-command. The man who drove me into that desert. He knows I am the ghost he failed to kill, the girl whose screams still echo in his nightmares, the revenge he’s been waiting for.
He should end me. Instead, he kisses me in the dark with a passion that rivals my hatred.

VOLK
Her name was Yelena when I left her bleeding in the desert.
For ten years, that night has haunted every dream. Now she’s back, calling herself Sofiya, dancing at our club, and I’m the only one who sees through the disguise.
I should tell the Pakhan. Put a bullet in her before she destroys everything.
But I’m going to help her do it instead.
Because she deserves her revenge. Because the Pakhan is a monster who lost sight of what his leadership should be. Because when I look at her, I don’t see the weapon she’s become—I see the girl I left with a single choice, and the woman who’s going to set us both free or kill us trying.
Two broken people. One brutal revenge. Secrets that could shatter everything.
In a world built on blood and loyalty, we’re about to burn it all down—together.

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