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Bought: A Dark Cartel Romance
Paperback
Series: Cartel Vows, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She was the debt her father couldn't pay.
Elena Reyes knew the arrangement before she arrived. Her father owed Miguel Vega, and she was the settlement. One year at the compound. Then it would be over.
Miguel Vega doesn't need a wife. He needs the debt cleared and the alliance secured. Elena is a transaction. Nothing more.
Except Elena doesn't behave like a transaction.
She maps the compound before she unpacks. She reads the room before she speaks. She understands exactly what she is to him, and she refuses to disappear into it.
Miguel expected compliance. He gets someone who sees everything, misses nothing, and is building something he hasn't named yet.
The year was designed to be simple.
Neither of them planned for what simple becomes when two people stop pretending.
Bought is Book 1 of the Cartel Vows series, a slow burn dark romance where the arrangement was never supposed to become anything else.
Continues in Book 2: Owned.
Dark romance. Slow burn. Captive situation. Morally grey hero. Intended for mature readers 18+.
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