Sasha tilted her chin up, defying the tremor in her heart. "Maybe I don't want to stay out of trouble, Dante. Maybe I want to walk straight into it."

– Focuses on Lev Leokov, a man who struggles to process emotions, and Mina Harris, a woman living on the streets whom he takes in.

Sasha picks up shortly after the events of book two. The Bratva (Russian mob) hierarchy is unstable. Alliances are brittle. Our protagonist, the eponymous Sasha Volkov, is the underboss everyone fears but no one truly knows. He is silent, lethal, and harboring a secret that could destroy his standing: he has a heart, and it beats for one woman.