Detective Elena Valdez trusted the wrong man—her own police partner. When she wakes up drugged and brutalized on the doorstep of Vale, the city's most notorious crime lord, she's plunged into a nightmare where her attacker and her protector are one and the same. Vale is the man she's been hunting for years, a predator with a scarred jaw and a reputation for leaving bodies in the river. Yet, he's the one who carries her to safety, cleans her wounds, and swears a dark, possessive vow: "No one hurts what's mine."
Trapped in his secluded villa, Elena is forced to rely on her greatest enemy as they unravel a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of her own department. The lines between hunter and hunted blur with every secret they uncover and every forbidden touch that passes between them. In a world where badges hide lies and criminals keep their word, can a bond forged in blood and betrayal survive? Or will the truth they uncover destroy them both?
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