Today, I'm pleased to welcome fellow author, Amber Daulton, who's new book Corrupting His Wife, just released yesterday! Let's get to know a little about Amber and book three in her Lozano Cartel series.Redemption through Corruption
When we think of a mafia or cartel romance, we usually expect power struggles and gunfire. But in my latest release, Corrupting His Wife, the war isn’t happening just on the streets. It’s also happening behind closed doors between two people who were never supposed to belong to each other.
If you’re looking for a story where the chemistry is so thick you can feel it, and the hero’s possessiveness is matched only by the heroine’s awakening, this is the book you’ve been waiting for.
Enrique Briceño isn’t a knight in shining armor. He’s the second-in-command of the Lozano Cartel, a man who lives in the shadows and takes what he wants. When he abducts Lourdes, he claims it’s to save her from a forced marriage, but his true mission is far more intimate: he wants to corrupt her. He wants to be the man who shows her exactly how well a woman deserves to be treated and how much pleasure her body can handle.
Lourdes Villegas has spent her life being a pawn, so she’s used to men who use force and mockery. When Enrique claims her, she expects another monster. Instead, she finds a lover who offers her something she’s never had: agency in and out of the bedroom.
In a world built on violence, Enrique and Lourdes find their sanctuary in each other’s arms. The romance in Corrupting His Wife excels in tension and trust despite the darker themes. While Enrique is the one who took her, he’s also the first man to step back and let Lourdes take the lead.
The dark romance genre isn’t for everyone, but if you can look past the danger and deceit, you’ll find love worth fighting for.
Corrupting His Wife
Series: Lozano Cartel (book 3)
Release Date: April 7, 2026
Genre: Dark Romance
Five Flames Heat Rating
Tagline: When his abduction scheme goes awry, he’ll have to prove himself worthy of the woman he craves.
Blurb:
Kidnapping a reluctant bride is easy. Staying off her jilted fiancé’s radar is tough.
As the second-in-command of the Lozano Cartel, Enrique Briceño always gets what he wants. So when Lourdes’s father demands she marry another man, Enrique makes his move—abduction. Vowing to corrupt his sweet little captive in every wicked way imaginable, he doesn’t expect her to fight him with fire.
Cartel princess Lourdes Villegas longs for peace. Freedom. A chance to let her artist soul breathe. Yet once again, a man is pulling her strings. In Enrique’s arms, she trades one ruthless capo for another. His touch sets her ablaze, but she’s already plotting her escape.
As political alliances crumble and the streets run red, Enrique must prove he’s more than just another monster in Lourdes’s life. Because this time, love might be the most dangerous thing of all.
Book three in the dark romance series, the Lozano Cartel. All the books can be read as a standalone, but are part of an interconnected series. – Scenes featuring kidnapping, violence, and miscarriage (discussed) may be uncomfortable for some readers. – No cheating. HEA guaranteed!
Excerpt:
We need to be married. She heard his unspoken words loud and clear.
Manipulated into one marriage after another. Why couldn’t she choose who she wanted, or better yet, stay single? The four years she’d spent under Jacobo’s thumb were enough to last a lifetime. Only, would she have such a terrible fate as Enrique’s wife? Even though he’d kidnapped her, he hadn’t technically hurt her. Terrorized and angered her, sure. But that was the extent of his cruelty. If he were Jacobo or Diego, he probably would’ve assaulted her by now.
Of course. Now she’s rationalizing Enrique’s male-chauvinistic actions just as she had Jacobo’s when he hit her while drunk. She was stronger than this. No matter what happened, she couldn’t lose herself in fear and self-pity as she had before. Whether she married Diego, Enrique, or someone else, she had to be strong and resilient. She had to survive.
Lourdes pulled from his grasp. Enrique’s heart was in the right place, though he was going about saving her all wrong. She had to protect him from his foolishness. Somehow, she had to escape and beg her father to grant him mercy.
“If I had the chance to go back in time and stop myself from doing this, I wouldn’t.” He tapped his fingers on the steering wheel. “Give me time, Lourdes. You’ll see I’m right. I will make you happy.”
Happiness, hope, love—those were dangerous words. Everything she’d ever wanted.
Too bad it wasn’t meant to be.
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Amber Daulton is the author of the Lozano Cartel, the Arresting Onyx, the Embracing You, and the Ramseys in Time series, as well as several standalone novellas. Her books are available in ebook and print on demand while select titles are also in audio and foreign language formats. She lives in North Carolina, USA, with her husband and demanding cats.
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