“I made more mistakes than I can count. One of them was you.”

In the criminal underworld, Lola DuBois is whispered about like a warning. A seductive snake. A ruthless backstabber. A woman who survives by aligning herself with power—and abandoning it the moment it stops serving her.

She’s loyal only when it matters most, and lethal when it doesn’t.

Monroe Vargas doesn’t trust women like her. He’s spent years enforcing loyalty with violence and keeping his emotions locked behind bloodstained rules. But Lola isn’t asking to be saved—and she’s far more dangerous than anyone realizes. She knows how to play the game because she was shaped by it.

As old threats resurface and debts come due, Lola is forced to decide whether the monster she became is enough to protect what she has left, or if it will finally destroy her.

Because some women aren’t born cruel. They’re made that way.

And once the blood settles, there’s no going back.