When “they” found him, it was in the middle of a Mexican desert burying a body… Still, it's not the worst thing Adrían Delgano has ever done during his time as an enforcer for a major Brazilian cartel. Yet, the fact remains that someone took him down with a tranquilizer, abducted him, and then dropped him off in a Moroccan villa surrounded by armed guards around the clock. And he doesn’t know who “they” are. However, the idea of being part of a weaponized, vengeance-seeking, ghost unit is too tempting to resist. Plus, it comes with million-dollar payouts, access to weapons, combat training, and the villa's private chef, Sayeda, whose entire identity he's pretty sure isn't real. Yet, he finds himself wanting to be her hero, her protector. Two things he's never been. Things take a mysterious turn when, while shopping in a Moroccan market, a fortune teller steps into his path and delivers an ominous "It’s through your first love that you’ll find your true love."

“Inside the allure of darkness, we often find our true selves.” Ten years ago, Adrían Delgano officially left his previous life as a cartel enforcer behind to become part of a ghost unit deployed to various high-conflict areas around the globe. Also, ten years ago, he left behind the first woman to make him feel as if he still retained shades of red in his coal-black heart. Sayeda Price. But the last time he saw Sayeda, it was as her lifeless body burned in the back of a discarded van, the flames consuming the metal frame around her—or so he thought until she shows up at the house of a friend neither of them knew they shared. Now, not only is she pretending not to know who he is, but he learns that she's part of the same Brazilian cartel he vowed never to return to.