I didn’t mean to steal their shipment. I only wanted enough money to pay for my sister’s medicine. But the Sinaloa Cartel doesn’t care about reasons. They only care about what’s theirs. Now they’re hunting me across the border—every shadow hides a killer, every stranger could be an informant. Just when they catch up, Kael Vance steps in. He’s not a cop. He’s not a hero. He’s a former cartel enforcer who walked away—and now he’s got his own score to settle. He says I’m his only leverage to take down the men who betrayed him. So he hides me in his safe house, teaches me to fight, and warns me never to trust anyone… including him. But as the walls close in and bullets fly, the line between captor and protector blurs. He’s the most dangerous man I’ve ever met—and the only one who makes me feel safe. “I don’t save people, sweetheart. But for you? I’d burn the whole world down.”