Book excerpt: Aitor Serrano is a man consumed by darkness — a ruthless leader of the Mexican Cartel who craves only power, control, and the respect that comes from fear. He’s a man without mercy, where love is weakness and violence is survival. To secure his empire, he makes a deal with the devil himself, Don Carlo, binding his future to the mafia king’s precious daughter in a marriage of convenience. Adeline Marchesi is everything Aitor is not. Gentle, sweet, and full of light, she escapes into her books, her world far removed from the blood-soaked violence that surrounds her father. But when she’s forced into a union with the most feared man in the cartel world, she finds herself trapped in a nightmare she can’t read her way out of. Aitor expected a fragile girl, easy to break. But Adeline’s fiery spirit begins to haunt him. What happens when he realizes he can’t stop thinking about the green eyed beauty who's bewitched him? Will her light be able to save the man damned to Hell or will his darkness be too much for her sweet soul?