The cards are dealt, the bets are placed, and the game of the century begins. From J.J. Anatoliy comes the story of the world's greatest antiheroes and their struggle for supremacy in the criminal underworld. Lady Luck smiles, enticing you forward... while holding the knife to your throat. Emilia Fox seems to have misfortune dogging her every step. In the dead of night, she is kidnapped from her front door by Russia's most powerful mafia crime boss, a man who is known only as Korol - the King. He is the phantom of the criminal underworld, and Emilia is subjected to his brand of torture for over a year before Fate intervenes in the unlikeliest of ways. Emilia must now release the demons from her past to defeat the monster of her present, but she needs one last piece to tilt the odds in her favor.
To force a king to his feet... you need a devil at your back. He holds the devil's own luck... but will it be enough to save the queen of his heart?
Viktor Orlov has lost everything. He has given up his prestige, his family, his honor, all for a woman that haunts his every waking moment... and fuels his darkest desires. She is his queen, his captain, and the moment he helped Korol abduct her from her home, she became his obsession. Not even the mafia king can stop the cold hand of Fate, and Viktor escapes Korol's clutches with the object of his obsession, vowing to serve her until Death itself comes to claim him. The cards are dealt, the die is cast, and the game of the century begins.
Emilia and Viktor gather to them some more broken pieces to strengthen their hand, and together they form the mercenary group of the ages. From the ashes of destruction emerges Downswing, and you'll be lucky if they only take your life. When Lady Luck shines upon them, giving them a chance to defeat the mafia king, they gather their forces and journey back to Russia to face him head-on. But when their queen begins to crumble around the edges, losing herself to her demons and slipping towards the edge of insanity, can they band together and keep her in the game... Or will Fate's cruel hand force her to fold for the last time? Downswing is the first book in the Lady Luck series. There are explicit sexual scenes, obscene language, and graphic descriptions of general badassery. Please read with caution. And an adult beverage.