Las Mariposas

Starcrossed Lovers - Book 2

Venezuela is falling apart.
The power cuts last longer every week. The food lines stretch around corners that didn't used to have corners. People disappear and the government calls it necessary and most people have learned not to ask what that means.
Isabela Vargas has never had to ask. Her father is a minister. Her world is gated, gilded, and intact - and she has spent twenty-two years being grateful for that without ever asking why it costs everyone else so much.
Río Castellanos has been living underground since he was eighteen, the year the regime took his father and called it necessary. He moves through the city no one at Isabela's dinner table talks about. He doesn't trust anyone. He can't afford to.
Then one night, a mission goes wrong, and Río ends up hiding in the last place he should be - behind the walls of the Vargas estate. And Isabela makes a decision she can't explain, that she will spend the rest of the story trying to understand.
She is everything he was raised to fight against. He is everything she was raised not to see.
Neither of them can afford this. Neither of them can stop.
Some things are forbidden because they're dangerous. Some things are forbidden because they're true.