Hi, my name is Nikita Slater and I'm the International Bestselling author of The Queens series, Fire & Vice series, The Sanctuary series, Driven Hearts series and several standalone novels. I've loved the written word my entire life and am an avid reader, as well as a writer. I live, eat and breathe books and I'm always working on something new!
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I live on the beautiful Canadian prairies with my son and crazy awesome dog. I have an unholy affinity for books (especially dark romance), wine, pets and anything chocolate. Despite some of the darker themes in my books (which are pure fun and fantasy), I am a staunch feminist and advocate of equal rights for all races, genders and non-gender specific persons. When I'm not writing, dreaming about writing or talking about writing, I love to help others discover a love of reading and writing through literacy and social work.

Mine.

“You have always been worth my life. If you kill me now, I will follow you around in death as I would in life, until you decide to join me.”

Boris.

Russian mafia enforcer Boris Grekov knew the moment he set eyes on her that she would belong to him. If he had a lifetime he would spend it convincing her that they were inseparable. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have the time. Exiled from Russia for more than a decade with a bounty on his head, he must now go back to reclaim his throne. He wants his woman at his side, whether she agrees to go or not.

Laney.

Born and raised an assassin, she must complete her job or lose the one thing she holds most dear. But every time she turns around he is right there, pursuing her, touching her, making her feel after a lifetime of emptiness. She will fight him with every breath in her body, because she cannot fall in love with the man she must ultimately murder.


Fire & Vice: Bound by Blood

When Laney woke the next morning, Jin was gone. She blinked and sat up, expecting to see the little girl playing on the floor or something, but there was no trace of her and the pink backpack was gone. Laney leaped from the bed and ran from the room, her heart pounding in panic. She nearly ran into a man standing just on the other side of her door.


He looked down at her as she halted in front of him. "Master wants to see you."


He shrugged. "With the nanny. Saw her leave. Now get dressed, Master wants to see you right away."


Laney nodded and retreated back into her room, taking deep breaths to calm herself. She had no reason to disbelieve him about Jin. She just wished she had woken up when her daughter had left. She had laid awake late into the night plotting their escape for the next evening. She must have been tired enough to sleep through the nanny's removal of her daughter. Damn it!


Chapter 39