Dearest Devil.Betrayed by her boyfriend and her own sister on the same night, Elena returns home expecting comfort—only to discover her family has already arranged her marriage to a man old enough to be her father.Trapped inside a life that suddenly feels unbearable, Elena runs to the last person she should trust:Dmitri Volkov.In Moscow, people call him Chyort—the Devil himself. A feared mafia lord whose name alone is enough to keep criminals away from his door. A man who never helps without taking something in return.Hours earlier, Elena had fled from his mansion after waking beside him and discovering a loaded gun beneath his pillow.She should have stayed away.Instead, desperation leads her back to him, asking for the one thing no sane man would ever ask of the Devil—escape.But Elena doesn’t realize that the night she spent in Dmitri’s arms changed something neither of them fully understands yet. For the first time in years, the man known as Chyort slept peacefully.And now, the Devil wants answers.As secrets surrounding Elena’s life begin to unravel, she finds herself pulled deeper into Dmitri’s dangerous world of violence, obsession, and power—where every favor has a price, and escaping him may become impossible.Because the closer Elena gets to the Devil…the more he starts to feel like the only safe place she has left.But in a world where every favor comes with a price, what happens when the Devil finally asks for something she cannot give?