Empires and Kings (Mafia, #1)

Product DescriptionMP3 CD Format I was known as the traitor’s daughter. When I was five years old, my father was tortured, branded with the letterZ, then beaten and left for dead. The grueling punishment for his crime was a reminder to all others who dared threaten the Russian’s reign. I was the young girl left behind. A living piece of the traitorous puzzle the Russian leader tried so diligently to ignore—until I grew up. No longer could he deny how much my existence had always been intertwined with his. And in order to survive the life I was thrown into, I was forced to learn my place inside of it. Vlad Zalesky was a tyrant to the lost. I hated him. He was a terror of mass destruction. I was afraid of him. He was a tormentor of the weak. I only wanted to hide from him. But not far beneath the venomous man’s outward indifference was something else. Vlad Zalesky carried secrets of unrestrained burden. I wanted to know those secrets. And because of the decisions I made, someone in our family had to pay.About the AuthorA. C. Bextor is the bestselling author of many books, including the Mafia series, the Lights of Peril series, and Kept: A Second Chance Fairy Tale. She lives in a small town in the Midwest. When not writing, she can be found reading or watching her favorite sports teams.