M.Z. Rylan
Adria Fedorov doesn’t kneel—she commands. And so does her creator.
MZ Rylan writes powerful, complex love stories where strength, vulnerability, and overcoming our pasts collide. Her female characters are fierce, fearless, and unapologetically in control of their destinies. At the heart of her stories is the unshakable belief that women can and should claim their own power, even in worlds designed to keep them in the shadows. In her debut novel Bound by Her, releasing in May 2025, Adria Fedorov is an iron-willed woman who inherits her father’s violent and secretive position within the Nine, an underground organization where trust is a weakness and power is the ultimate currency.
When three dangerous men from her father’s past come into her li
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