Dark Bratva romance in gilded Vienna — marriage of convenience, morally gray men, fierce women. No cheating. HEA across the series.
An icon restorer uncovers a forgery pipeline laundering Bratva money — and the only protection that holds in that world is a marriage contract with the heir who wants to take the family legitimate. Menace outside the marriage; sanctuary inside it.
Vienna, first snow. Mila Sokolova can tell a real icon from a fake at twenty paces — until a saint who shouldn't exist crosses her bench, her brother falls into trouble he won't name, and a tall stranger reads her like she reads paintings. Free, and yours to keep.
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She authenticates masterpieces. He collects certainties. Their marriage is the most convincing forgery either of them has ever made — a forced-marriage Bratva romance in gilded Vienna. No cheating. HEA across the series.
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In love, and at war. An anonymous letter asks the one question that can unmake them: ask your husband how his brother died. The vow holds; the truth doesn't.
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Everything they built, put to the fire — and a crown held over two heads at the last. The endgame of The Vienna Vows, where a paper marriage finally becomes a sworn one.
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Vera Maddox writes dark, slow-burn romance about dangerous men, clever women, and the contracts — written and unwritten — that bind them. The Vienna Vows is set in the gilded, snowbound world of Vienna's art trade and the families who launder their power through it.
When she isn't drafting marriages of convenience, she's reading about forgeries, iconography, and the quiet art of knowing when not to touch.
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