Sounds like the line to a fun joke, right? Maybe for some it does. Not for Liz. All she wanted was to branch out for her 21st birthday, to overcome her shyness. She never should have entered that bar.
How was she to know that the owner was looking to fill a special order for a client? One that she fit the bill for perfectly. Innocent, untouched, young.
One minute she is drinking with the nice owner and bartender, feeling like she was finally able to live. The next, she’s chained up in a warehouse in Mexico with a dozen other girls.
It could have been worse. At least she isn’t just for stock. No, she’s meant as a wedding gift. From the cartel boss to his son. A man who prefers innocent women.
Overnight, Liz is thrown from her quiet and sheltered life in New Orleans, yes she knows that sounds ridiculous, to being the favored mistress to a cartel boss. One the new wife does not like.
Elizabeth. Martinez Has lived a hard life? she lost her family when she was barely out of her diapers, to Katrina……They didn’t survive the flooding She bounced from one foster home to the next, until she was 18 and able to move out on her own. Most of the places she lived at were awful. It was better to keep her head down and her mouth shut…… to say that She learned from a young age to keep herself invisible for her own safety. She is not completely comfortable around other people… was putting it mildly
Elizabeth was naive and gullible, who had kept to herself, working as a bookkeeper for a bookstore, she rarely left her apartment. And she did most of that work from home.
So, Today was supposed to be a special day for her. This was supposed to be how she celebrated her 21st birthday……. So she went to a local club to celebrate her birthday….One wrong decision changed her whole life.
Antonio Ortiz, is the first born and next in line to take over in the family business …….. Did I mention the fact that Antonio’s father was the head of the Mexican Cartel.
His father had not only arranged for the first wife, but he also arranged for his son’s first mistress…… arranged marriages are a tradition in his family…….. so by him marry the woman he most Despised., he would be joining the Valdez familia and the Ortiz familia together
So, at Antonio’s Bachelor party. He was gifted something very strange from his father…. His Million Dollar Angel
This book was so unexpected. I often don't read the summaries before I start with a book. I try to remember but it is also fun to be surprised. This book definitely surprised me. Elizabeth Martinez is a quiet woman who decides to go out for the first time on her 21st birthday. She picked the wrong club. Andre, the owner and known sex trafficker, was looking for a million dollar angel and he was running out of time. Liz fit the bill perfectly. She was bought by Oscar Ortiz for his son's wedding gift as a mistress. It was a long-standing tradition that the groom receives a mistress especially when forced to marry someone to improve the family's standing and not for love.
Antonio Ortiz found Liz and knew instantly that she would be his forever despite his marriage to a woman he despises. This unexpected story has twists and turns that will be unimaginable to readers. Antonio leads Liz into this unknown world with such tenderness and love that she thrives in it.
This story will make readers believe in love. Seeing Liz turn into a strong young woman with so much on her shoulders will take readers breathe away. Readers will run for the next book in this series and it will be well worth it.
Elizabeth has no family and friends and is abducted by a human trafficker on her 21st birthday and sold to a Mexican cartel leader to be used as his son, Antonio’s mistress.
Antonio had no idea that it was his family’s tradition to be given a mistress before the wedding night. He doesn’t like the idea until he meets Elizabeth. He falls for her innocence and light. She falls for his kindness but isn’t sure she can trust what they have is real.
What follows is an unexpected love story with some twists and turns.
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When Elizabeth's 21st birthday doesn't end up the way it was planned, and she ends up in a human trafficking ring only to end up with the head of an Organized Crime Family as his mistress. Little does Elizabeth know that this will end up being the best thing to happen to her. She's immediately accepted into this huge family, a family that she never had growing up or never knew she could have.