{"canonical":"https://books.mozaikallc.com/id/tropes/criminal-underworld","locale":"id","author":null,"type":"trope","modified":null,"data":{"label":"criminal-underworld","slug":"criminal-underworld","pitch":"Romance with criminal-underworld: Bind Me by Anna Zaires, Claim Me by Anna Zaires, The Time Stopper by Dima Zales.","works":[{"title":"Bind Me","author":"Anna Zaires","canonical":"https://books.mozaikallc.com/id/works/anna-zaires/bind-me","year":2016,"heat":5,"seriesTitle":"Capture Me","seriesOrder":2,"tropes":["Captivity","cat-and-mouse-pursuit","criminal-underworld","Dark Romance","dark-captor-captive-romance","Enemies to Lovers","Forced Proximity","obsessive-jealousy","only-one-bed","possessive-morally-gray-hero","prison-break-and-escape","protective-brother","Spies","spy-thriller-romance","trauma-and-hurt-comfort"],"summary":"He’s determined to break her.\n\nFor Lucas Kent, his new prisoner is a maddening contradiction: compliant yet defiant, fragile yet strong. He needs to uncover her secrets, but doing so may ruin everything.\n\nHis obsession could destroy her.\n\nShe’s determined to escape.\n\nFor Yulia Tzakova, her captor is the man of both her dreams and her nightmares: tender one moment, cruel the next. She can’t let him crack her, but resisting him may leave her broken.\n\nA moment of weakness could cost her everything.","isbn":null,"updatedAt":"2026-11-06T00:00:19.590938+00:00"},{"title":"Claim Me","author":"Anna Zaires","canonical":"https://books.mozaikallc.com/id/works/anna-zaires/claim-me","year":2016,"heat":5,"seriesTitle":"Capture Me","seriesOrder":3,"tropes":["Captivity","criminal-underworld","Dark Romance","dark-captor-captive-romance","Enemies to Lovers","Forced Proximity","Found Family","hurt-comfort","morally-gray-antihero","obsessive-possessive-hero","protector-romance","revenge-and-retribution","sibling-rescue-and-reconciliation","Spies","spy-romance"],"summary":"She’s on the run.\n\nYulia Tzakova’s freedom comes at a heavy price. Her former captor dominates her dreams, and survival consumes her waking moments. She may have escaped, but she’s far from safe.\n\nIn the shadowy world of spies and betrayal, nothing is what it seems.\n\nHe’s obsessed with getting her back.\n\nLucas Kent’s rage knows no bounds. The danger of his job occupies his days, but hunting down Yulia is what he lives for. When he finds her, she’ll never escape again.\n\nHe’ll do whatever it takes to keep her.","isbn":null,"updatedAt":"2026-11-06T00:00:19.590938+00:00"},{"title":"The Time Stopper","author":"Dima Zales","canonical":"https://books.mozaikallc.com/id/works/dima-zales/the-time-stopper","year":2015,"heat":4,"seriesTitle":"Mind Dimensions","seriesOrder":2.5,"tropes":["criminal-protector","criminal-underworld","dangerous-attraction","dangerous-crime-boss","enemies-to-tentative-allies","enemies-to-uneasy-allies","family-trauma","frozen-time-dimension","hidden-identity","high-stakes-gambling","morally-conflicted-heroine","Novella","power-at-a-cost","power-with-a-cost","protective-crime-lord","protective-older-brother","protective-sibling","psychic-detective","reluctant-killer","revenge-mystery","revenge-quest","russian-mob","russian-mob-underworld","siblings-at-odds","ticking-clock-powers","Time Travel","time-stop-mind-dimension","time-stopping-powers","undercover-investigation","underground-gambling-den","Urban Fantasy","wounded-heroine"],"summary":"From a New York Times bestselling author comes a novelette in the Mind Dimensions series. This short story does not require you to have read the other books in the series.\n\nI can stop time, but I can’t change anything.\n\nI can access memories, but not far enough.\n\nMy name is Mira, and my life is about finding the Russian mobster who killed my family.","isbn":null,"updatedAt":"2026-11-06T00:01:26.053104+00:00"}]}}