

He came to kill the accountant. He kept her instead.
Mariel Duarte has spent thirteen years being the smartest person in a Brickell tower that files her under useful. Then a routine audit turns up three shell companies with saints’ names and no bodies inside them — and by Friday, the most dangerous man in Miami knows hers.

She was ordered to marry her brother’s killer. He said yes knowing why she carries a knife.
Salomé Urdaneta keeps the corridor’s book of favors — three generations of debts recorded in a woman’s hand in the mountains where the lightning never stops. When the Marcano cartel asks for five years of contracts, her mother sets the price the old way: a marriage of houses. The groom the man they send when the thing must actually happen.

He read every word she ever wrote. Then he read the drafts she deleted.
Lourdes Cabral is the last investigative reporter at a dying Miami paper, two divorces and one ulcer deep into the only story that ever mattered: four hundred pages on the family that launders this city in plain sight. Nobody knows the manuscript exists. Nobody except the source she’s never met — the one whose tips built her career, whose timing always tracked her worst weeks, whose corrections arrive in pencil, in a hand like a hymn.
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