The Soviet Union is crumbling. Petyr and Dimitri's story is just beginning.

"Don't give anyone a reason to notice you." That's how I've lived my whole life. Safe. Silent. Unseen. Until Dimitri.

He's all sharp edges and quiet strength—untouchable in every way that counts. But beneath the iron walls he's built, I catch the hunger in his gaze. The need he's never dared to voice.

In a country where men like us are erased, punished, destroyed, wanting him is reckless. Touching him is dangerous. Loving him could cost us everything.

And yet, once we cross that line, there's no turning back. Not from him. Not from us. Not when the whole world is shifting beneath our feet.

Because even as an empire falls, our fire refuses to be extinguished.