Endling (2025 novel)

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Endling is a 2025 novel by Maria Reva. The novel tells the story of three Ukrainian women who work as "brides" for a bridal agency in Ukraine that arranges meetings with paying bachelors from overseas who hope to select a wife. The women plan to kidnap a group of these bachelors and hold them for ransom, using the kidnapping as an opportunity to expose the misogyny of mail order bride businesses. Their plan is shattered on the same day they kidnap the bachelors, as Russia launches its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

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