Braxton Thorin thought he understood the brutal woman who had dragged him out of a Russian prison. Then Daria finally spoke in perfect English and cracked open the truth: she wasn’t fighting because she loved violence. She was fighting because survival had shaped her—and because, for the first time, she’d chosen a side that mattered.
“So yeah,” she continued, her voice softer now, “I’m not some coldhearted killer who loves this shit. But I’ve had to become someone who could survive it. And if that means you and everyone else see me as the villain, so be it. At least now I’m finally fighting for something that matters.”
~Daria Melnichenko, Mission Shift
About this Daria Melnichenko quote
This Daria Melnichenko quote comes from Mission Shift by Evie James, the third and final book in the Broken Heroes trilogy. After Braxton challenges her morality, her loyalty, and her role in the war, Daria finally reveals that she isn’t the unfeeling Russian operative he assumed her to be. She’s a woman forged by brutality, raised by powerful men, and now risking everything to fight against the machine that created her. Their story blends enemies to lovers tension, forced proximity, secret identity, fish out of water danger, kidnapping, romantic suspense, Russian mafia stakes, and a war-zone romance where trust is fragile, dangerous, and hard-won.
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