Above all, protect each other's hearts, and love will live.
Love. Samara London has lived her entire life seeking it. Being the daughter of a cartel king who often had little time for her, she has learned how to be self-sufficient in anything she does, including her love life. Not that she has one, anyway. An arrangement she made six years ago out of loyalty to her brother, Royale, has derailed her plans for love. She wants to be in control to protect her heart, but you can't control who you love.
Loyalty. Demetrius 'Meechie' Augustine lives by it. He rewards loyalty with loyalty. When the most loyal thing he could do happens to also be the most disloyal, he finds himself stuck in love with his best friend's little sister and questioning his loyalty to the very cartel he runs in the name of love.
Samara wants to love but has built up so many defenses that it's hard to let herself fall. Will she find that you can't guard your heart against love because the only way to truly keep it safe is to open it?