Valentina Cruz, romance author
Valentina Cruz's catalog includes Dark Romance, Captor / Captive or Mafia / Organized Crime, and Morally Gray Love Interest. Listen to a free sample and explore Saints of the Black Harbor.
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Saints of the Black Harbor
In Cartagena's gilded chaos and Miami's glass towers, forensic accountant Isabel Rojas follows a money trail she was never supposed to find, straight into the heart of the Black Harbor cartel. Protective custody puts her in the orbit of Mateo Serrano, the founder's estranged son, who wants the pipeline destroyed for reasons of his own: his sister vanished through the same port years ago, and he has never stopped counting the cost. Together they build a case from encrypted ledgers, dock union secrets, and a witness neither of them can afford to lose, while an undeniable pull grows between the woman who trusts numbers over people and the man who has spent his life managing the truth. When Mateo's own signature surfaces on the page that damns him, Isabel must decide whether justice and love can survive the same reckoning. Saints of the Black Harbor is a dark, tense, and ultimately hopeful romance about integrity, complicity, and the kind of trust that has to be earned in daylight. By Valentina Cruz. Listed listening length: 31 minutes. Category: Dark Romance. Story dynamics: Captor / Captive or Mafia / Organized Crime, Morally Gray Love Interest, Forced Proximity, Redemption Arc.