Book description
What’s more embarrassing than a butt dial?Butt dialing your boss…And leaving a dirty voicemail when you’re uhh… “thinking” about them.. Working as Ruslan Oryolov’s personal assistant is the job from hell.After a long day spent tending to the billionaire’s every whim, I need some stress relief.So when I get home…
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1 author picked Cruel Paradise as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’ve never come across a book that mixes mafia romance’s sumptuous luxury and knife-edge danger as well as this one. It almost feels like a billionaire romance: the hard-working assistant ignored by her cold, arrogant boss, the lavish cars and apartments, the way money is life-or-death for the struggling heroine but an irrelevance for the hero.
But Ruslan, the hero, isn’t just a CEO: he’s a Russian Mafia boss, and that brutal danger runs through the book like a vein of silver. I loved the way the heroine, Emma—who’s wonderfully self-reliant and has a BIG heart—stood up to him. I…
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