Pakhan Protector: An Age Gap Single Mom Mafia Romance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798249614904)

She's a single mom running on fumes.
He's a bratva pakhan who built his life to feel nothing.
And her past is about to collide with the one man she can't afford to want.

Maja O'Shea is twenty-three, exhausted, and doing her best to hold a life together for the one person who matters: her five-year-old son, Liam. She has a job, a routine, and a rule she doesn't break-don't want things that will cost too much.

Grigoriy Ivanovich is the kind of man who makes the world move when he speaks. A control freak with an empire and a spotless penthouse designed for one person, he treats attachment like weakness and desire like something to file away and outlast. Everything in his life is curated, contained, and temporary.

Except Maja.

He hired her on a whim three years ago. Since then, she's become the quiet center of his days-steady, competent, impossible to ignore. And Liam, with his dinosaur facts and full-body trust, has done what no one else has managed: gotten under Grigoriy's skin.

Now Diego Rosa-Liam's father-is getting out of prison in two months, asking for a second chance. A real family. A practical future.

Grigoriy has a narrowing window to do the one thing he's avoided for years: tell Maja the truth.

So he asks her to be his plus-one at a destination wedding in Costa Rica-one week of forced proximity in a place too beautiful to hide in, where every careful plan keeps breaking, and every boundary starts to look like a lie.

Because Maja doesn't just need a lover.
She needs safety.
And Grigoriy isn't just asking her to choose him.

He's asking her to choose the risk.

PAKHAN PROTECTOR is a slow-burn, high-yearn, workplace mafia romance featuring an older, controlling bratva hero; a young single-mom heroine; forced proximity at a destination wedding; and a love story that demands more than either of them planned to give.

TROPES:
Age gap - Bratva boss hero - Single mom heroine
He falls first - Slow burn high yearning
Workplace romance - Destination wedding proximity
Protective alpha - Soft for her and her son
Curvy heroine - Found family - One bed
Touch-her-and-die vibes - Mafia romance with heart

Author: Violante Da Sola
ISBN-13: 9798249614904
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2026
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d