Mara
 
The rich powerful men I work for never associate with the help, so I’m shocked when the latest resident of Myasnikov notices me, and even more astounded that he pays enough attention to decipher that my stutter is a fear-based reaction.
 
Arkadiy Orlov is the epitome of wealth and power. He’s politically successful, handsome, and has the funds to buy anything he wants.
 
Except the wife his campaign manager insists he needs to reach the top of the political ladder he’s been climbing for the past two decades.
 
I could have been the Cinderella of his story if our dark pasts hadn’t collided with dire consequences.
 
Our union could destroy Ark’s campaign for presidency before it even begins. But with our attraction hotter than the inferno we barely survived in our childhoods, will we risk everything for the chance of love?
 
Or are not all fairytales meant to have a happy ending?
 
Arkadiy
 
My life was meticulously planned. Individual success in the private sector, wealth beyond imagination, and then the ultimate power—domination of the political world.
 
Then I saw her, the maid with a stutter and a bucketload of secrets in her pretty eyes.
There was something about Mara that drew me to her. I feared it was because a victim knows a victim, but I could have never predicted the similarities of our childhoods.
 
We faced the same pain, endured the same heartache, but Mara’s life proves that not all secrets need to be shared.
 
Sometimes burying them is the only way you can move past them—both physically and mentally.

Please note: although this is book three in the marital privilege series, it can be read as a complete standalone.