The first full-length novel in the Volkov Syndicate universe from Tessa Virelle. There is more on the auction block than dignity.Three years ago, Alexei Volkov was given the keys to an auction house.Now he holds the gavel, perfecting a system his father built on fear and rebuilding it on something worse. Control.Beneath a Manhattan club, the Volkov Syndicate runs an auction house where debts don't go to collections, they go to the stage. Names become numbers. Collars replace contracts. And the room full of masked men waiting in the dark have already decided what they're willing to pay.The gavel satisfies the debt. What it costs is something else entirely.
The Initiation is a short dark prequel: expect explicit power exchange, psychological dominance, ritualistic BDSM.
