Between Loyalty and Blood
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Last published Sun, May 31, 2026
Nineteen-year-old Aurora Rivera thought her father was dead.
After her mother's brutal murder, a trail of questions leads her to a hidden world in northern Mexico, never expecting to find alive: Mateo Reyes, her father, and the leader of a powerful cartel. Haunted by her mother's memory and caught in a charged tension with his right-hand man, Joel, Aurora begins to see herself changing. Because Aurora Rivera isn't just her mother's daughter anymore... she's Mateo Reyes's.
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