{"product_id":"pakhan-protector-violante-da-sola-9798249614904","title":"Pakhan Protector: An Age Gap Single Mom Mafia Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShe's a single mom running on fumes.\u003cbr\u003eHe's a bratva pakhan who built his life to feel nothing.\u003cbr\u003eAnd her past is about to collide with the one man she can't afford to want.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaja 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrigoriy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcept Maja.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Diego Rosa-Liam's father-is getting out of prison in two months, asking for a second chance. A real family. A practical future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrigoriy has a narrowing window to do the one thing he's avoided for years: tell Maja the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause Maja doesn't just need a lover.\u003cbr\u003eShe needs safety.\u003cbr\u003eAnd Grigoriy isn't just asking her to choose him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe's asking her to choose the risk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePAKHAN PROTECTOR\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTROPES: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAge gap - Bratva boss hero - Single mom heroine\u003cbr\u003eHe falls first - Slow burn high yearning\u003cbr\u003eWorkplace romance - Destination wedding proximity\u003cbr\u003eProtective alpha - Soft for her and her son\u003cbr\u003eCurvy heroine - Found family - One bed\u003cbr\u003eTouch-her-and-die vibes - Mafia romance with heart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Violante Da Sola\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798249614904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d","brand":"Violante Da Sola","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172523254015,"sku":"9798249614904","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pakhan-protector-violante-da-sola-9798249614904","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}