The professional (The Game Makers Series) book by kresley Cole
Mafiya enforcer Aleksandr “The Siberian” Sevastyan’s loyalty to his boss is unwavering, until he meets the boss’s long-lost daughter, a curvy, tantalizing redhead who haunts his mind and heats his blood like no other. Ordered to protect her, Aleksandr will do anything to possess her as well–on his own wicked terms.
He makes the rules.
Grad student Natalie Porter has barely recovered from her first encounter with the dark and breathtaking Siberian when he whisks her away to Russia, thrusting her into a world of extreme wealth and wanton pleasures.
In the game of obsession, two players are better than one.
Yet all is not as it seems. To remove Natalie from an enemy’s reach, Aleksandr spirits her into hiding. From an opulent palace in Russia to the decadent playgrounds of the mega-rich in Paris, the two lovers tempt each other’s boundaries to discover whether their darkest–and most forbidden–fantasies really can come true…

Natalie is a fun loving farmers daughter. But that’s not her story, she’s been searching for her biological family, and the investigator she hired is returning her emails.
Natalie and Aleksander meet in a bar, she’s with her friends. She looks up and there he is, bolstered by alcohol and her friends, Natalie wanders over to him. It doesn’t go well, and he leaves.
This book is full of intense emotions, Alek had to “fight” his feelings for Natalie, he feels he isn’t worthy of her. Natalie can’t understand Alek, he blows hot a d cold with her, she knows he wants her, but he doesn’t feel he’s good enough for her.
This is the first of a trilogy of books (three brothers find three women) each are scared from their pasts, and each woman will help them find a future.
Will Natalie be able to help Aleksander find his way to a future with her?
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