sedulus

PREFACE

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thriller romance
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• synopsis•
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What does power cost when love and loyalty collide?

As a teenager, Remoura Jiménez believes in her marriage to Marcellus that she her life in final sequence, a life of stability and love. But on the night her father—kingpin Mariano Jiménez—is tragically killed, she discovers that her marriage is built on lies, bloody secrets, and hidden agendas. Betrayed by her husband's greed, and imprisoned for his schemes, Rémoura loses everything: her father, her freedom, and her place in the empire.

When she escapes confinement, she returns hardened and determined to take control of the throne her father left behind. Fueled by vengeance, she rises through the dormant aftermath of her father's killing with ruthless precision, outmaneuvering rivals and reclaiming power in Mariano's name. But her path collides with respectable Agent Krossen Brownlee, a man assigned to dismantle her operation whose once dutiful pursuit turns obsessive. Their cat-and-mouse connection transcends into something darker: a sanguinary entanglement of love, lust, betrayal, and blurred loyalties.

As Rémoura expands her empire, she also unravels the truth of Marcellus's role in her father's death. Every choice drags her deeper into a war between family, enemies, and the law. Torn between revenge and survival, passion and destruction, she must decide what kind of queen she will be—one defined by love, or one consumed by power.

• characters •
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Remoura Lazúli Aléjo Jímenez
AGE: twenty-four
NATIONALITY: Mexican-American
DOB: 12 FEBRUARY XXXX