title: Taken Back
author: Amorosi, Alyna
description: Be careful what you wish for. You just might get Dmitri Veselov.
   Sonya Valentina is a struggling waitress who gets hired as a hostess at a strip club owned by her mysterious Middle Eastern friend. One of the regulars at the club is a cocky Russian mobster. Sonya has never gone for the bad boy type, but this brash and dangerous man somehow makes her feel…
  safe
  . Dmitri Veselov has the looks of a model... well, except for his scars and prison tattoos. He's as heartless in dating as he is vicious in handling his business. And this big motorcycle-riding stud already has every stripper at Sultan's Palace squirming in their G-strings. But when Dmitri meets Sonya, he has feelings of comfort and trust like he hasn't felt since before his happy childhood took a tragic turn into a brutal life of death and violence. Yet with a mafia war raging,
  his mob boss uncle's fortune on the line
  , and more dark secrets than he can count, will Dmitri risk everything to save Sonya when she gets in trouble with a ruthless sheikh?
  Taken Back
   has some steamy scenes (and they get a bit rough!) It also has a suspenseful plot, wild surprises, and is
  a standalone, full-length novel with no cheating and an HEA.