She poisoned me. He cured me. It saved me. He condemned me.<br/>I'm everything I ever wanted to be, and yet, I'm the most unhappy man in the world.<br/>Millionaire, athletic, respected. I don't lack sex, power, or luxury.<br/>And yet, here I am, in the shadows of my house.<br/>I run a millionaire empire. Beyond Beyond order. An empire capable of buying the law, destroying order and moving the world as if its inhabitants were puppets.<br/>I am Sokolov, The Architect, the man whom mafias, governments and companies look with submission. And yet here I am, sitting in a dark mansion, only inhabited by the echo and a glass of wine poured out at my feet.<br/>And then she showed up.<br/>I, the representative of the Bratva, the Red Mafia, Mother Russia, was meeting with the Japanese Yakuza. (haughty) Tattooed. Sexy. Italian Sabina, The Woman in Black, an onyx stone in a coal world. I’ve never seen anyone fight<br/>He turned, smiled sufficiently and looked at me as if I were... normal. The leader of La Cosa Nostra, the Italian underworld par excellence. Never, no woman, ever looked at me like that. I'd never been hit until I took the air out of my stomach.<br/>How did that woman become the leader of the oldest mob in the world? How could I look at a 10-foot tattooed bull like that? I had to get to know her more.<br/>After so many years feeling that there were no more challenges in life, there she was; a challenge, a mystery, a power at my height. Unmasking her became my purpose, but she… knew how to play.<br/>And now, here I am, kissing her behind a trail of corpses, with her blood-stained face and her ivory hands holding a knife against the tattoos on my neck. What's next?<br/>Warning: A dark, romantic and erotic novel aimed at a mature audience. Contains scenes of explicit sex, foul language, violence and a game of shadows.<br/>