Bound by Blood, Broken by Lies
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Last published Wed, May 28, 2025
Elena Rivera never trusted fairy tales. Life had taught her better.
At eighteen, she worked after school at Hollow Brook Community Center, tutoring kids and organizing food drives. Her beauty turned heads-soft caramel skin, fierce almond eyes, and waves of dark brown hair-but it was her fire that kept people at a distance.
She kept her circle small. Her only real friend was Jace Milan, her unapologetically fabulous, fiercely loyal gay best friend. He knew everything-except the truth about the night her parents died.
They were murdered six years ago in a drive-by shooting. The police called it "gang-related," then dropped the case. But Elena knew the truth was darker. A symbol carved into the doorframe of her childhood home-a black wolf's head-told her who was behind it.
The Moretti family.
And now, the heir to that empire was being forced into her life.
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