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The Initiation

Volkov Syndicate, Black File 001

The Volkov Syndicate does not advertise. It evaluates.

A woman is offered to clear a boyfriend's debt. She arrives without a name. The room is sterile. The glass is one-way. The man on the other side does not raise his voice - he has not needed to in a long time.

What unfolds is not seduction. It is appraisal. The kind of attention that measures a person down to the seams and decides what she is worth.

Alexei Volkov is the refinement of his father's methods. Colder. More precise. He has inherited a Bratva empire built on the commodification of debt, and tonight, in front of three old Vor and a brother who watches too closely, he proves he can run it.

The Initiation is the prequel to the Volkov Syndicate series - a multi-POV literary dark crime series about power, inheritance, and the people who aim to survive.

Slow-burn.
Psychological.
Explicit in places, restrained in others.
This is not a romance.