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

They were playing with her. Giving her a chance to climb painfully to her feet, take a few swipes at the idiot that came at her first and then they would rush her and take her down. Then they would back off, give her time to recover. They slapped, punched and kicked her. They hit her in the places that hurt most, but they didn't use weapons. Though she was a mass of bruises, she didn't think anything was broken. Yet.


It was only a matter of time. She knew the Master wanted this to end in her death. They would become progressively rougher until there was nothing of her left. She had seen these beatings before. Failure was unacceptable. And disloyalty was worse.


"Stand up, bitch!" Someone snarled from behind her, kicking her thigh hard enough to knock her forward. Rain pelted her, plastering her cargo pants and white T-shirt against her body. She knew her shirt was becoming muddy and transparent, but couldn't bring herself to care.


Chapter 41