The first three chapters: read the rest on Kindle now. ❤ Your new addiction. Born into Portugal's wealthiest family of gangsters, Francisca Matos only knows life within her father's territory. She is a beautiful, bright young woman, the only child of her father - so treated like a caged bird. Come her 22nd birthday, Francisca no longer yearns for freedom. She would burn just to feel it. A mercenary who never removes his mask, Cross asks nothing more of his life than to carry on the way it is: fulfilling contracts, and enjoying the pleasures that accompany the money. When his contractor puts him on the case of saving a kidnapped Miss Matos, Cross would rather do anything but. Until the two come face-to-face... then, everything changes. Surviving an island of hostile, armed men is no challenge to Cross. The tension that grows between himself and Francisca... Lust can only be denied for so long.