Book 2 of the Devoted & Damned Series -Recommended to read Book 1 (Insatiable) first to experience the full descent. Seven years ago, Valentina Casillas vanished the night her sister died-and with her, the girl who once loved four broken boys with everything she had. Now she's La Diabla. Whispers of her name make men flinch. She runs a covert empire from the shadows, wrapped in red silk and surrounded by guns, her lips kissed by Chile's most dangerous cartel boss-Pedro Pascal. Lover. Partner. Equal. But the woman they once called theirs? She doesn't exist anymore. She doesn't cry. She doesn't beg. And she sure as hell doesn't forgive. So when Xander, Ron, Jason, and Chris return to her city-older, darker, still carrying the weight of the girl they shattered-they're not met with warmth. They're met with fire. Because the woman they abandoned didn't disappear. She evolved. And now? She's untouchable. Unforgiving. Untamable. "You want the girl you left behind? Dig her up. I buried her with my sister."

Seventeen-year-old Aria Castellano thought she knew who she was - a scholarship student, a good daughter, a girl with simple dreams and a mother who made the world feel safe. But when her mother dies in a car accident, the life Aria knew unravels overnight. A letter. A name. A father she's never met. Now she's flying across the country to New York - to a mansion with guards at every gate, brothers who don't know what to make of her, and a father still struggling to accept the daughter he didn't know existed. Her stepmother is kind, her new home beautiful... but nothing about it feels right. At St. Augustine's Academy, power hums beneath every smile and secret. The students there were born into legacies - families bound by alliances older than the school itself, until betrayal tore them apart. Those old rivalries still live on in the halls she walks now, and Aria's arrival is stirring them all back to life. One boy in particular seems to hate her most. He's untouchable, cruel in that effortless way only someone raised in power can be. But behind the sharp words and colder eyes is something else - something that pulls her closer even when she knows she shouldn't look twice. As Aria begins to uncover the truth her mother died protecting, she learns that some secrets were buried for a reason... and that even in a world built on bloodlines and betrayal, the most dangerous thing of all might be the way he looks at her. "Some secrets don't stay buried forever. And Aria Castellano's name might be the one that brings them all back to the light"