Her Empire

Everyone looking for the man behind the empire has made the same mistake.There isn't one.Adriana Ricci inherited her father's organisation four years ago.She inherited the routes.The money.The men who had served him for decades.And a room full of powerful people who still occasionally forget that she is the one sitting at the head of the table.Adriana never forgets.So when a logistics consultant named Thomas Reeve begins quietly asking questions around Dublin's freight network, she notices.His cover is excellent.His questions are careful.His patience is almost convincing.Almost.Because Thomas Reeve is not a logistics consultant.He is Arben Flanagan, an experienced undercover agent working an international investigation that has spent years trying to penetrate Adriana's organisation.He believes he is getting closer to the woman running the empire.He has no idea she already knows exactly who he is.Adriana should end the operation.Instead, she invites him closer.A false warehouse deal becomes another meeting. Another test becomes a private conversation. And somewhere between carefully constructed identities, counter-surveillance and truths neither of them is supposed to reveal, professional fascination turns into something far more dangerous.Trust.Desire.And a relationship that could destroy both of them.Because Arben's investigation is built around one assumption.Adriana Ricci is running the cartel her father left behind.But the deeper he moves into her world, the more he begins to suspect the intelligence file has been telling the truth about everything except the one thing that matters most.What her empire is actually for.Now Arben must decide whether completing his mission means exposing a woman he no longer believes is the enemy.And Adriana must decide whether the first man capable of seeing the truth behind her empire is also the most dangerous person she could ever trust.Her Empire is Book One of Cartel Queen, a continuing dark romantic suspense series featuring a powerful female crime boss, undercover DEA agent, secret identity, enemies to lovers tension, mutual surveillance, forbidden attraction, morally complicated choices and high heat.