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The Shadow Between Us
Paperback
Publisher: May Cortez
Published: Sep 19 2025
Pages: 846
Weight: 2.12
Height: 1.87 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Marco believed he had the perfect marriage-nights of heated passion, a wife whose touch could set his body on fire. But perfection shattered when Karla came home drunk, her lipstick smeared, panties inside out, and moaning another man's name as she slumped into their bed. The calls she refused to answer, the bruises shaped like hands on her thighs... desire turned into doubt, and doubt into a hunger for the truth.
What Marco didn't know was that someone from his past was orchestrating it all-a drug lord he once left for dead, now pulling strings in the shadows. To shield Karla, Marco vanished to America. But soon after, she disappeared too. The headlines screamed of a serial killer-a predator who seduced men, left their bodies ravished, and marked each with a signature that mirrored Karla's own hidden sins.
As Marco followed the trail, every clue pulled him deeper into a maze of sex and betrayal. Karla's best friend, Kitchie, was suddenly too close-her hands lingering, her eyes promising pleasures Marco swore he'd never crave. Secrets between the three of them tangled into a web of forbidden desire, making every truth more dangerous than the last.
Karla, desperate to save Marco, surrendered to a world of lust and power where every kiss was a weapon and every moan a sacrifice. She gave herself to men she despised, crossed lines she once thought unbreakable-all to keep her husband alive. But if Marco uncovered what she had done in the name of love, would he see a savior... or a whore who destroyed their vows with her own body?
Now, Marco must uncover the truth-about Karla, about Kitchie, about the puppet master who turned their marriage into a theater of lust and blood. But in a world where sex is currency and betrayal the only language, the truth may not bring salvation.
It may ruin them both.
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