Hostile Heir

Hostile Heir is giving kidnapped-and-gifted-to-a-cartel-boss-only-to-get-saved-by-his-son energy, and honestly? It works. TomΓ‘s is possessive, ruthless, and wearing about six different masks at once β€” captor-turned-protector with a whole lot of grumpy in his DNA. Carina’s the virginal FMC thrown straight into the lion’s den (tiger’s den, actually), and the forced proximity plus age gap plus touch-her-and-die undertones hit exactly where you’d want. It’s dubcon-heavy and doesn’t pretend otherwise β€” off-page drugging, an attempted assault from side characters, and a hero who takes her innocence with zero apology before the guilt kicks in. Go in with eyes open, know your triggers β€” but if love-hate cartel chaos with a stockholm-syndrome slow burn is your thing, y’all are one-clicking straight into book two for that cliffhanger.

Book Description

I should’ve killed her. Instead, I crave her like a sin I’ll take to the grave.
My father gave the order. In the cartel world, mercy gets you killed.
But she was too sweet to slaughter. Too pretty to forget. So I let her go.
Since then, my father’s deadβ€”and fate throws her back at my feet, bloodstained and trembling, her lips parted in shock, her eyes burning with hate.
She’s mine now.
Her moans. Her tears. Her fury. I demand it allβ€”raw, messy, soaked in sweat and dark desire.
I crave her on her knees and clawing at my back in the same breath.
However, I swore I’d use her and walk away.
But every stolen breath brands her into my skin.
Every time she fights, I want to push her harder.
Touch her until she forgets her own name and only remembers mine.
Because men like me? We don’t get softness without bleeding for it.
We take, we devour, and we burn everything in our path.
One wrong move, or misplaced trust, and someone dies.
Now my enemies whisper poison in her ear.
They tell her I’m already promised to another woman.
It’s a marriage for power with a rival I’ll never touch. A body I’ll never crave.
But if Carina believes their liesβ€”if she dares to betray me…
She’ll learn I don’t share. I don’t forgive.
And I never, ever let go of what’s mine.

Are you ready to enter the dangerous and seductive world of the Souza brothers? Kick start the series with the story of two enemies turned lovers. One-click now to get your copy!

Four brothers. Four duets. One Epic crime family saga.

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Content Warnings

This one's a lot, so know before you go: the heroine is kidnapped and effectively gifted to a cartel boss (human/sex-trafficking-adjacent setup), then held captive by his son. There's off-page drugging and an off-page beating of a woman, plus an attempted sexual assault committed by side characters (not the hero). The main relationship itself involves dubcon/coerced sex β€” the hero takes her virginity roughly, with guilt/remorse arriving only after. Expect cartel-standard murder, violence, and gore throughout, alongside heavy trauma/PTSD and references to past suicidal ideation and self-harm (not on-page, past-tense). Spitting shows up as an explicit content beat, and the overall TomΓ‘s/Carina bond leans into toxic-relationship and stockholm-syndrome dynamics.
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Publication Date2022-11-03 Relationship Pairing(s)MF Darkness Score7/10
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