From the USA Today Bestselling author of Love, in English and The Artists Trilogy, comes a dark romance about a good girl and a very, very bad man. It’s a deliciously twisted take on forbidden love, set among the drug cartels of hot, steamy Mexico and is not for the faint of heart. It contains explicit sex, violence, abuse, drug use, bad language and sexy Mexicans. You have been warned…
For … You have been warned…
For Luisa Chavez, a twenty-three year old former beauty queen, a better life has always been just out of her reach. Sure, she’s had men at her feet since she was a young teenager but she’s never had the one thing she’s craved — security. Having grown up in near poverty, her waitressing job in Cabo San Lucas can barely let her take care of herself, let alone her ailing parents. Every day is another unwanted advance, every day is a struggle to survive.
When Salvador Reyes, the depraved leader of a major Mexican cartel, takes an interest in her, Luisa is presented with an opportunity she can’t afford to pass up. She’ll become Salvador’s wife and exchange her freedom and body for a life of riches — riches she can bestow upon her deserving parents. But Luisa quickly finds out that even the finest wines and jewels can’t undo the ugliness in her marriage, nor the never-ending violence that threatens her every move.
Soon, Luisa is looking for an escape, a way out of the carefully controlled life she’s leading. She finally gets her wish in the worst way possible.
As it is, being the wife of Salvador makes her an ideal target for rival cartels and there’s one particular man who needs Luisa as part of his cartel’s expansion. One particular man whose quest for power has destroyed lives, slit throats and gotten him out of an American prison. One particular man who will stop at nothing until he gets what he wants.
That man is Javier Bernal. And he wants Luisa. He wants to take her, keep her, ruin her.
Unless she ruins him first.
Some men were born to create empires, some women were meant to be queen.
Dirty Angels is the first standalone novel in the Dirty Angels Trilogy, in which all books feature or involve different characters. The character of Javier Bernal is from The Artists Trilogy, and while reading TAT is recommended if you want additional insight into this twisted character, it is not required.**
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This was my first book by Karina Halle and I was more than impressed. She did a phenomenal job pulling me in and keeping me invested in this story. There was a high level of suspense throughout the novel that kept me turning page after page. I fell hard for the characters in this book. I mean hard. Luisa is definitely a force to be reckoned with. …
4.5 stars
“You have me, my black heart and my dirty soul.”
After being in a book slump for a while I decided to reread this book because I love it. This is the second time I reread a book but I am so happy I did it because it helped me get out of the slump. The first time I read Dirty Angels was in 2014, and I didn’t remember everything that …
Before I started to read this book I was afraid that this would be fast pace story with no actual plot, but I was soon proven wrong when I was overtaken by this book and its characters.
The heroine of this story is Luisa who is married to one of the most nefarious crime lords of Mexico. She married in order to assure her parents are taken care …
Javier, I want to be your dirty angel…
I’m beginning to think there is something frightfully wrong w/me. I loved this book. Even with the warnings, the violence, the sex…it’s a mind f*ck! I devoured this story! Javier is so deliciously wicked evil that he could tempt an angel to give up her wings to join him. If you are looking for something …