ICE & IRON

She’s a Winter Court Fae who’s survived sixty years of exile by never staying anywhere long enough to care. He’s a Bratva heir whose family has spent three generations hunting creatures exactly like her.

Kira Volkov has been cold, hidden, and alone for six decades. Then Brooklyn happened. The tattoo shop that became home. The life she wasn’t supposed to build. And now the Bratva is forcing her hand: marry Dmitri Kozlov — the ruthless heir who would kill her if he knew what she was.

Dmitri’s father gave him an ultimatum: unite the Brooklyn factions through marriage or lose territory to rival syndicates. His solution? A political alliance with the tattooed ice queen nobody really knows. Her price? Ninety days, then she disappears like she’s done for sixty years.

The terms: separate rooms, no questions, stay out of each other’s way. No feelings. Strictly survival.

Except morning coffee rituals happen. Fighting magical syndicates side by side happens. And somewhere between the performance and the proximity, Dmitri starts seeing past the walls to the woman who’s been alone too long. Kira discovers the supernatural hunter has a code — he protects what’s his. And she’s becoming his.

The problem is, she’s the thing his family trained him to destroy. Every day she stays is another day the truth gets closer to detonating. And the frozen heart curse tightening in her chest doesn’t care that falling in love with him is the one thing that could kill her.

Brooklyn Bratva. Winter Court Fae. A forced marriage between a monster hunter and the monster he married. And the growing, terrifying possibility that ninety days won’t be enough for either of them.

Forced marriage. Hidden identity. Enemies-to-lovers. Touch her and die. High spice (explicit scenes).

The kind of book where she could freeze him solid and he’d still choose her.

WHY THIS WILL SELL

→ Mafia romance is one of the top 3 highest-grossing romance subgenres — adding Fae worldbuilding creates a fantasy-mafia crossover that’s exploding on BookTok
→ Forced marriage + hidden identity is a trope combination with massive search volume and very few titles delivering both at this level of worldbuilding
→ Mortal/immortal romance taps into the Sarah J. Maas and Holly Black readership — readers who want romantasy tension in a contemporary urban setting
→ “Touch her and die” protective hero is the single most viral trope on romance BookTok — Dmitri’s Bratva authority combined with his willingness to destroy his own world for her hits the exact fantasy
→ High spice with explicit scenes targets the fastest-growing heat level segment, and the ice magic + forced proximity creates built-in tension for scenes that write themselves

TROPES:
• Forced Marriage
• Hidden Identity
• Enemies to Lovers
• Brooklyn Mafia × Winter Court Fae
• Touch Her and Die
• He Falls First
• Mortal / Immortal Romance
• Slow Burn High Heat
• Ice Magic
• Dual POV
• Power Couple
• Found Family

HEAT LEVEL: High Spice (Explicit scenes)

Perfect for fans of: Danielle Lori, Scarlett St. Clair, Sarah J. Maas, and Katee Robert