Treacherous Ways

Foster care hardened her, but college molded her. Fleeing her foster home after seducing the wrong man's husband, Rebecca enrolls in college seeking purpose. Instead, she finds Stacy-a predator in designer heels who sees Rebecca's potential. Stacy teaches her not business, but weaponization-how to turn ambition into blackmail, desperation into currency, and extract value from everyone, mercilessly. Under Stacy's guidance, Rebecca learns a dangerous lesson: everything and everyone has a price. When Stacy graduates, Rebecca proves her skills by pulling off a score that changes everything, robbing the wrong men-a governor's son and Cesar Hernandez's cartel-of millions in blood money. The governor's son dies, and now his father sends twin hitmen, Malachi and Marcus, for Rebecca's life. Cesar dispatches his own killers. Stacy reappears-not as a friend, but as an equal Rebecca underestimated. Lines are crossed, loyalties shatter, vengeance multiplies. Caught between political power, cartel violence, and a former mentor's wrath, Rebecca makes a critical mistake-falling for the wrong man. Desire becomes a death sentence, trust a weapon. Survival means becoming the monster they underestimated. When the world hunts you, there are only two options:Kill or be killed.TREACHEROUS WAYSBook One: The Price of a SoulWhere ambition is foreplay, betrayal is currency, and power is always paid in blood.