{"canonical":"https://books.mozaikallc.com/uk/tropes/age-gap-romance","locale":"uk","author":"Анна Зайрес","type":"trope","modified":null,"data":{"label":"age-gap-romance","slug":"age-gap-romance","pitch":"Анна Зайрес writes romance with age-gap-romance: The Krinar Exposé, Terrible Beauty, Devil's Lair.","works":[{"title":"The Krinar Exposé","author":"Анна Зайрес","canonical":"https://books.mozaikallc.com/uk/works/anna-zaires/the-krinar-expose","year":null,"heat":5,"seriesTitle":null,"seriesOrder":null,"tropes":["age-gap-romance","Alien Romance","best-friend-romance","blackmail-and-coercion","claimed-mate","dark-captor-captive-romance","Enemies to Lovers","Forbidden Love","forbidden-interspecies-romance","Forced Proximity","human-alien-romance","Journalist","journalist-in-peril","possessive-alien-hero","secret-nightclub"],"summary":"What happens in an alien sex club stays in an alien sex club, right?\n\nWell… not if you pen an exposé on the place. And certainly not if you omit the fact that the experiences in the article are your own.\n\nOr if the Krinar you’ve hooked up with is the club’s owner, whose many kinks involve blackmail and mind games.\n\nFor a young journalist out to prove herself, it’s all about landing the next big story.\n\nUntil it becomes all about landing in a possessive alien’s penthouse bed.\n\nNote: This full-length novel combines two previously published works—The X-Club, a short story by Anna Zaires, and Vair, the sequel written by Hettie Ivers. It also contains an all-new, expanded ending and an epilogue featuring Mia & Korum.","isbn":null,"updatedAt":"2026-11-05T23:59:42.368445+00:00"},{"title":"Terrible Beauty","author":"Анна Зайрес","canonical":"https://books.mozaikallc.com/uk/works/anna-zaires/terrible-beauty","year":2022,"heat":5,"seriesTitle":"Molotov Betrothal","seriesOrder":1,"tropes":["age-gap-romance","Arranged Marriage","arranged-betrothal","captor-captive-romance","Dark Romance","dark-mafia-romance","Enemies to Lovers","forbidden-attraction","Forced Proximity","Mafia","morally-gray-antihero","obsessive-possessive-hero","rival-crime-families","sacrifice-for-family","secret-heir"],"summary":"A family contract. A dark bargain. No escape.\n\nEleven years ago, I met him. A year later, I was betrothed to him. Now he’s come to claim me, slaughtering anyone standing in his way.\n\nMy husband-to-be is a monster from a family as ruthless and powerful as mine, a man who deals in violence and destruction… a man terrifyingly like my father. For over a decade, he’s stalked me, shadowing my life.\n\nI fear him. I hate him. Worst of all, I want him.\n\nMy name is Alina Molotova, and Alexei Leonov is a fate I can’t escape.","isbn":null,"updatedAt":"2026-11-06T00:00:51.049977+00:00"},{"title":"Devil's Lair","author":"Анна Зайрес","canonical":"https://books.mozaikallc.com/uk/works/anna-zaires/devils-lair","year":2021,"heat":5,"seriesTitle":"Molotov Obsession","seriesOrder":1,"tropes":["age-gap-romance","boss-employee-romance","Captivity","Dark Romance","dark-mafia-romance","Forced Proximity","Found Family","Grumpy Sunshine","instant-attraction","live-in-tutor","Mafia","political-conspiracy","possessive-protector-hero","romantic-suspense","secret-child","single-father","unsolved-murder-mystery","woman-on-the-run"],"summary":"Live-in tutor wanted for four-year-old. Must be willing to relocate to a remote mountain estate. $3K/week cash.\n\nOn the run from ruthless killers, I’m down to ten bucks in my wallet and a half-tank of gas in my ancient car when I spot the ad. The job sounds like the answer to my prayers, but there’s a catch.\n\nThe child’s father is the most beautiful, most dangerous man I’ve ever met.\n\nDarkly seductive and filthy rich, Nikolai Molotov is a tantalizing mystery, a lethally alluring contradiction. Bruised knuckles and tailored suits, tender endearments and dirty promises—my new employer draws me in like a magnet, even as my instincts scream for me to run.\n\nI should’ve heeded them… because I’m not the only one with secrets.\n\nMy safe haven just might be the devil’s lair, and once he’s claimed me, it will be too late to run.","isbn":null,"updatedAt":"2026-11-06T00:00:38.07262+00:00"},{"title":"Twist Me","author":"Анна Зайрес","canonical":"https://books.mozaikallc.com/uk/works/anna-zaires/twist-me","year":2014,"heat":5,"seriesTitle":"Twist Me","seriesOrder":1,"tropes":["age-gap-romance","Antihero","Captivity","Dark Romance","dark-captor-captive-romance","faked-death-and-reunion","forbidden-all-consuming-love","Forced Proximity","hostage-rescue-mission","hurt-comfort","look-alike-obsession","morally-gray-criminal-hero","obsessive-possessive-hero","private-island-captivity","trauma-bonding"],"summary":"Kidnapped. Taken to a private island.\n\nI never thought this could happen to me. I never imagined one chance meeting on the eve of my eighteenth birthday could change my life so completely.\n\nNow I belong to him. To Julian. To a man who is as ruthless as he is beautiful—a man whose touch makes me burn. A man whose tenderness I find more devastating than his cruelty.\n\nMy captor is an enigma. I don’t know who he is or why he took me. There is a darkness inside him — a darkness that scares me even as it draws me in.\n\nMy name is Nora Leston, and this is my story.","isbn":null,"updatedAt":"2026-11-05T23:59:42.368445+00:00"},{"title":"White Nights","author":"Анна Зайрес","canonical":"https://books.mozaikallc.com/uk/works/anna-zaires/white-nights","year":2014,"heat":5,"seriesTitle":"White Nights","seriesOrder":1,"tropes":["age-gap-romance","arranged-marriage-rival","assassination-plot","billionaire-oligarch-romance","Captivity","class-divide-romance","Dark Romance","Forced Proximity","instalust","morally-gray-possessive-hero","nurse-and-powerful-hero","romantic-suspense","whirlwind-romance"],"summary":"Power. That’s what I think of when I spot him across the ER. Power and danger.\n\nOne of the wealthiest Russian oligarchs, Alex Volkov is as ruthless as he is magnetic. He always gets what he wants, and what he wants is me, in his bed.\n\nHe’s the kind of trouble every woman should run from. The bullet his bodyguard took for him proves that.\n\nI should stay far away, but for one night, I give in to temptation. Before I know it, he’s pulling me deeper into his world of excess and violence, invading not only my life but my heart.\n\nHow much trust can I place in a man so dangerous? How much do I dare risk for his love?","isbn":null,"updatedAt":"2026-11-06T00:00:38.07262+00:00"}]}}