Roots & Ruin

Willow is a normal twenty two year old who loves her easy bookstore job, partying with her friends and living a soft life.
Dragna is a thirty four year old unforgiving Bratva leader who’s life is written in blood and loyalty and who’s name ends conversations.

To her, he is a ruthless businessman. A man who feels powerful and dangerous, but not in a way she could ever imagine.
To him, she is everything he swore he would never want or need.

She doesn’t know the cost of standing beside him.
She doesn’t know what he’s already done to keep her safe.

Dragna tells himself his distance is mercy and his secrecy is protection, but wanting Willow is the one weakness he can’t fully cut from himself.
Every lie he tells brings her closer to a life that would destroy her if she ever found out the truth, because the closer she gets to finding out exactly who he is, the more dangerous his protection becomes.
Enemies don’t threaten him anymore, they threaten what he loves and Dragna will burn down empires before he lets Willow become collateral damage in a war she never agreed to fight in.

In a world ruled by violence and fear, loving the Bratva’s king is the most dangerous thing Willow could ever do, even if she doesn’t know it yet.