Book cover for Dirty Angels (Dirty Angels Trilogy #1) by Karina Halle

Dirty Angels (Dirty Angels Trilogy #1)

2022 Released
352 Pages
5-6 Hours
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Metal Blonde BooksISBN 9781088044032

For Luisa Chavez, a twenty-three-year-old former beauty queen, a better life has always been just out of her reach. Sure, she's had men at her feet since she was a young teenager but she's never had the one thing she's craved - security. Having grown up in near poverty, her waitressing job in Cabo San Lucas can barely let her take care of herself, let alone her ailing parents. Every day is another unwanted advance, every day is a struggle to survive.


When Salvador Reyes, the depraved leader of a major Mexican cartel, takes an interest in her, Luisa is presented with an opportunity she can't afford to pass up. She'll become Salvador's wife and exchange her freedom and body for a life of riches - riches she can bestow upon her deserving parents. But Luisa quickly finds out that even the finest wines and jewels can't undo the ugliness in her marriage, nor the never-ending violence that threatens her every move.


Soon, Luisa is looking for an escape, a way out of the carefully controlled life she's leading. She finally gets her wish in the worst way possible.


As it is, being the wife of Salvador makes her an ideal target for rival cartels and there's one particular man who needs Luisa as part of his cartel's expansion. One particular man whose quest for power has destroyed lives, slit throats and gotten him out of an American prison. One particular man who will stop at nothing until he gets what he wants.


That man is Javier Bernal. And he wants Luisa. He wants to take her, keep her, ruin her.


Unless she ruins him first.


Some men were born to create empires, some women were meant to be queen.


CW: Please refer to the inside of the book for numerous triggers. This is a dark mafia romance and reader discretion is advised.


Dirty Angels can be read as a standalone but it is part of a series:


#1 Dirty Angels

#2 Dirty Deeds

#3 Dirty Promises



Karina Halle

Karina Halle is a former travel writer, music journalist, and screenwriter, and the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of over sixty bestselling novels, ranging from horror and suspense to contemporary romance. She lives in Los Angeles and on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband, and her adopted pitbull Bruce, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails, and devours a lot of books. Her work has been translated and published in twenty languages.

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