Inked in Devotion (Marriage Ink 2) by Victoria Paige-review tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 28, 2026
I thought I fell for a man sent to kill me, so I kept a secret from him.
We were flawed from the start.
A weekend of hot sex. Fake names. An escape from always coming second.
He vanished from my bed, but he left a part of him with me.
Then I saw his arrest on the news—an accused serial killer.
So I ran and hid.
Over a year later, he’s a free man, absolved of his crimes.
Still a deadly man—the bratva’s vicious enforcer.
I’ll embrace my legacy before I tell him my secret.
A reluctant heiress entering a covenant for an arranged marriage that would protect me from him.
But he shows up at my door, and the moment he sees my baby’s brilliant blue eyes, he knows he has a son.
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REVIEW:INKED IN DEVOTION is the second instalment in Victoria Paige’s contemporary, adult MARRIAGE INK dark, erotic, Mafia romance series. set in the author’s SCORNED FATE and DELUCCI’S OBSESSION worlds, which in turn are connected to the author’s ROGUE PROTECTORS series. This is Bratva assassin Nikolai ‘Kolya’ Petrov, and single mother / women’s shelter manager Chloe Brown King’s story line. INKED IN DEVOTION can be read as a stand alone but I recommend reading the series in order for backstory and cohesion.
NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Kolya and Chloe) INKED IN DEVOTION follows the second chance relationship between our story line couple, a relationship mired in secrets and lies. Approximately eighteen months earlier, an anonymous weekend together left Chloe Brown pregnant, the baby’s father in prison, and our heroine in hiding with the family she knew nothing about. Fast forward to present day, Chloe’s connections to the King Crime Family is about to go public, and with it, the return of the man she hated to love. Desperate to protect her son from the Bratva lifestyle, Chloe struggles to trust is fueled when our heroine becomes the target of an unknown foe.
The world building focuses on the protection of Chloe and her son Sebastian, and the Bratva’s desperate attempts to claim our heroine’s son. From the elite and ruling members to the hidden organizations taking aim, the life of Chloe and her son are threatened at every turn. A secret syndicate wants control but Kolya is determined to protect the family he never wanted. Honor among villains comes into play when Chloe and Kolya’s lives are threatened.
The relationship between Chloe and Kolya is a second chance, of a sort. Chloe was desperate to hide and protect her son from his father and the Bratva lifestyle but her own heritage meant danger followed where ever they go. Kolya never wanted a family-his own bloodline used for Bratva control, and in this, Kolya is determined protect the woman with whom he will fall in love. The $ex scenes are intimate, provocative and intense.
There is a large ensemble cast of familiar, dangerous and charismatic secondary and supporting characters, many of whom we met in the interconnected series and story lines. We are reintroduced to Bratva Pakhan Kirill Zahkarov, and Mafia princess / fixer Lusenka ‘Lucy’ De Lucci; Kirill’s sister Aralina, brother Maksim, and their parents Ivan and Irinia Zahkarova; IT specialist Trevor Hayes; and organized crime members, and Chloe’s extended family Theodore and Jeremiah King. The requisite evil has many faces.
INKED IN DEVOTION is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, dysfunctional family dynamics and abuse, power and control, family and relationships, forgiveness and love. The character driven premise is dark, dramatic, gritty and twisted; the characters stubborn, desperate and determined, often brutal in their need for control; the romance is spicy and spirited.
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Reviewed by Sandy
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Victoria Paige writes smart, edgy, seductive romance.
Her heroes are badass alpha males and her smart, strong-willed heroines can hold their own against a bossy hero. Her books are sexually explicit and may contain dark themes, morally ambiguous choices, and disturbing situations as she injects realism into her stories and gives them her own twist.
Victoria lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband and playful German Shepherd Dog, Loki.
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