Venom & VowsUpdated at May 17, 2026, 20:21
She was sent to break him.
She didn't expect him to already be broken.
Solène Marchetti has spent three years hunting the cartel that killed her sister. Her assignment: get close to Mateo Vega-Cruz — shipping magnate, Ibarra Cartel asset, the most dangerous kind of man — and flip him before a ten-year conspiracy buries them both.
But Mateo isn't who her file says he is.
Forced into the cartel's grip to protect his kidnapped niece, he has spent four years building a secret dossier that could bring the entire network down. He doesn't need an Interpol operative. He needs someone to trust.
What he gets is Solène.
From the sun-soaked ports of Cartagena to the corridors of a Madrid cartel summit to the open water of the Atlantic, they circle each other — two people running the same race from opposite directions, carrying secrets that could destroy each other.
The mission was simple: find his fracture point.
She found something worse.
She found that she was his.