Not Your Typical Cartel: A Dark Thriller Romance Novel

By Rose Marlowe

Adrian Valmont went undercover as a money courier to infiltrate the Agreste organization. Then the cartel caught him wearing the identity of a dead man.

Luciano Agreste does not keep Adrian alive out of mercy. The face Adrian is using belongs to someone Luciano ordered killed years ago, and the answers may lead to Luciano's missing brother. While Adrian is held inside the cartel's private world of forged deaths, false passports, and erased records, he discovers something worse than captivity: his own government has already declared him dead.

The federal handler Adrian trusted knows where he is. He is not coming.

Luciano needs Adrian to uncover who has been manipulating the Agreste family from inside the Archive, a hidden record of every person the organization has ever disappeared. Adrian needs a way out before his own identity is erased for good. In a city where every document can be forged and every death can be staged, the hardest thing to prove may be that either man deserves a future.

A dark M/M cartel and undercover-agent romance featuring fake deaths, captivity, forced proximity, erased identities, Medellin noir, morally gray heroes, and a hard-won ending.

Content Note: Intended for mature readers 18+. Contains explicit adult sexual content, cartel crime, captivity, surveillance, threats, political corruption, fake deaths, trafficking as an antagonist crime, violence, and abuse.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMF7QVCP
• ISBN13: 9798160790015
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"