…I stepped closer, anger boiling hotter. “I knew a day like this would come. You are a betrayer. You have been plotting against me from the start.” “Me?” Ricardo spread his hands innocently. “I have not even done anything yet. Just wait until I destroy you and your precious empire. I will watch you crumble to your knees. I will be there when you fall. I will order my men to fuck your little bitch right in front of you while you lie there helpless. You will watch your whore get devoured by heartless men. Your empire will burn to the ground. And while you cry for help, I will tell my son Mateo, your own cousin, to pull the trigger and send you straight to hell.” He threw his head back and laughed loudly, the sound ugly and full of hate…” A single betrayal brings down a feared drug empire… When secrets leak from inside a ruthless cartel, a loyal man is framed, drugged, and executed for treason he never committed. His bloodline is erased in fire, all except one girl. She is taken alive, stripped of her name, and forced into the home of her enemy where she becomes a slave in the house of the devil himself; Luciano Cortez, heir to an empire built on lies and blood. Cold. Merciless, until the quiet girl he owns crawls beneath his skin and one forbidden night binds them in ways neither can escape. Desire turns to trust. Trust turns to love, and buried truths find their way back to the surface. The real traitor was never dead. He was closer than anyone dared to suspect. Now the daughter of a murdered man stands at the crossroads of fate. Will she burn the empire from within… or rise as its queen and rule it in fire and blood?