In the vast landscape of Mexico City where the cartel’s presence is left to the degree that even their infinite shadows stand tall, Alejandro Morales comes back home after twenty-eight years hardened by one thing: revenge. Separated from his mother at a young age and rejected by his father, the evil cartel kingpin Hector Morales, Alejandro has only one goal—to bring down his father and the rest of the mafia cartel. But the road of vengeance is not straight and clear and the truth may turn out to be the flame that burns him. When Alejandro starts his deadly battle against the cartels, he meets an extraordinary woman, Isabella Volkov: a Russian woman who knows how to survive. Isabella is a woman who learns that she cannot escape her past tragedy and becomes a slave of the sadistic Viktor Petrov. Both of them bonded by a hate-and-love relationship creates a spark which has the potential to reduce the city to ashes. However lurking behind the scenes is the overly domineering stepmother Margarita Morales, who while not as direct as Gregorio is also behind Alejandro’s suffering and has made sure that the bonds that tie him to his tormentors cannot be easily cut no matter how sharp a knife one may have at hand. What Alejandro discovers in the process of unveiling the hidden truths about his own family is the possibility of betrayal lurking in the most unexpected places, and that the line between love and hatred can be very thin. In a world where loyalty is life, and betrayal is the currency of the streets, Alejandro Morales and Isabella Volkov must survive the war of the mafia. They love in anger, their lives are at peril, and before this love story is complete, their city will be soaked in blood.