Böcker av Leonora Mendez Castillo

After a whirlwind summer in Barcelona, Dahlia Rosario struggles to adjust to life back home. New York City feels haunted as memories of the months she spent with Alejandro Narvaez won't leave her in peace. When they parted ways three months prior, they struck a deal. Alejandro would return for her if she asked but only if she decided she was ready to leave everything behind. Ultimately, Dahlia realizes her old life is unfulfilling compared to the future she knows they could have together. When they reunite, the honeymoon phase is short-lived as the city of Barcelona is dangling at the cusp of a war in the underground world Alejandro lives in. When Alejandro's long-time rival, Sandro Sandoval, executes a series of underhanded attacks on the Narvaez family, including a threat to Dahlia, all illusions of peace are shattered. Alejandro makes it his mission to destroy the Sandoval family, even at the cost of his allies turning against him. Including Dahlia. Dahlia struggles to come to terms with the realities of being a mafia Don's partner. She can no longer turn a blind eye to the atrocities she's witnessed, many of them at the hands of Alejandro, whom she accepts with both regret and terror, is not the man she thought...or hoped him to be. A deep-rooted fear of him grabs hold of her, threatening to destroy their relationship and everyone around them.

After graduating college, Dahlia Rosario packs her bags and takes off to Barcelona with her cousin, Karina, for a backpacking tour across Europe. All it takes is one wrong turn down the labyrinthine streets of the Gothic Quarter for Dahlia to get lost. They stumble across a lounge run by the charming and enigmatic Alejandro Narvaez. Dahlia and Alejandro immediately hit it off and a heated affair ensues. However, what was supposed to be a meaningless summer fling quickly turns deadly when Dahlia becomes wrapped up in an assassination attempt. Alejandro is the heir to the Narvaez crime family, whose sphere of influence runs through the whole of Latin America to Barcelona, where they've been for the last decade. Despite Alejandro's fervent efforts to legitimize the family business, sensitive power dynamics and decades old allegiances within the city put those plans in jeopardy. To further complicate things, someone wants him dead and now Dahlia has a price on her head as well. Against her will, Alejandro takes her to his villa in the countryside where he promises to protect her until the threat is gone. So long as there are people trying to kill him, there'll be someone trying to kill Dahlia for having been at the worst place at an even worse time. Dahlia fights captivity every step of the way but when her feelings for Alejandro begin to cloud her judgement, she worries she may be losing her mind. Or worse, she's morphing into the amoral, murderous criminal she's fallen for. As the two of them continue to struggle for power over the other, neither of them can deny their true feelings. With both their lives at stake the choice between survival and love must be made in the face of an all-out war.