When her notorious drug lord uncle is recaptured, Layla Navarro catapults to the top of Mexico's most powerful cartel.
Layla always wanted to run the family business. But is she willing to kill for it? When her drug lord uncle is recaptured, she catapults to the top of Mexico's most powerful cartel. Groomed as his successor, Layla knows where the bodies are buried. But not all the enemies. To expand cartel influence she accepts a offer to move two tons of cocaine from Colombia to Cancun by jet. The deal goes sideways during a stopover in Guatemala when Layla unexpectedly uncovers a human trafficking ring. Plagued by self-doubt, she must fight off gangsters, outsmart government officials and navigate the minefield of Mexican machismo. Even worse she realizes she's become a target for every rival cartel seeking to undermine her new standing. From her lush base in the tropics, she's determined to retain her dominant position in Mexico's criminal world. If she can stay alive.
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The Gulfstream jet, loaded with two tons of Colombian cocaine, careened over dense Yucatán jungle as Layla stared out the compact window, horrified. If they weren't running on empty and destined to crash, it might have looked lush, even dreamy. Without fuel, the engines starved into silence, she heard only the whooshing sound of the aluminum plane as it cruised over mangrove swamps and fast approaching mahogany trees. All thoughts of her hasty departure from Guatemala to escape Don Guillermo's wrath had vanished, along with any hopes of safely landing in Cancun. They were going down.
An alcoholic, miserly attorney reluctantly defends a black man from a false resisting arrest charge. He then discovers damaging information against the cops and two cronies, and embarks on a battle to keep himself and his client alive.
