The Quarter Storm (Mambo Reina, #1)

by Veronica G. Henry

You could call me a cynic, but people I met for the first time started out with a negative balance. They earned their way onto the positive side based on their actions.

Human beings reserved their most potent venom for the ones we love.

That’s one of the things I loved about her. Unlike other people, she knew about and respected boundaries.

He’d used the same spoon that had already been in his mouth. My mama would have cried scandal.

enough to know that in one way or another, money, along with its partner in crime, ego, was behind almost every vile thing that ever happened.

Papa always said that a fish pulled from the river longs to return.