When the two lives Jade Monroe has fought to keep separate finally collide, hiding is no longer an option.
Jade has always lived in compartments. Banker. Daughter. Sister. The woman secretly in love with Cristóbal “Crimson” De León, Brooklyn’s most dangerous man.
She keeps the doors locked for a reason. The day her family learns who Crimson is to her, she could lose everything.
Then her detective brother-in-law follows a thread in a cold case that leads him somewhere he was never meant to look — surveillance photos of Jade with Crimson. Jade standing far too close to the empire her family has spent years trying to escape.
After eighteen months in prison, Crimson comes home to find his kingdom changed. The brother he was raised beside, Montoya, made a deal with a rival to hold the empire together, and now Victor Caine has a foothold in Brooklyn. Loyalties are fraying. His territory is compromised. And the woman he loves is caught between the life he built and the family she would die to protect.
Crimson wants to keep Jade clean of his world.
Jade is done being protected from it.
As secrets surface and the lines between family, loyalty, and love disappear, Jade must decide whether to keep living in pieces, or step fully into the life she has spent years denying.
She never wanted the crown.
But she is done pretending she will not wear it.
JADE is the smoldering second novel in The De León Dynasty crime romance series, perfect for readers who love morally gray antiheroes, obsessive slow burn, family loyalty, and heroines who refuse to be saved.
Start with Book CRIMSON.
Jade has always lived in compartments. Banker. Daughter. Sister. The woman secretly in love with Cristóbal “Crimson” De León, Brooklyn’s most dangerous man.
She keeps the doors locked for a reason. The day her family learns who Crimson is to her, she could lose everything.
Then her detective brother-in-law follows a thread in a cold case that leads him somewhere he was never meant to look — surveillance photos of Jade with Crimson. Jade standing far too close to the empire her family has spent years trying to escape.
After eighteen months in prison, Crimson comes home to find his kingdom changed. The brother he was raised beside, Montoya, made a deal with a rival to hold the empire together, and now Victor Caine has a foothold in Brooklyn. Loyalties are fraying. His territory is compromised. And the woman he loves is caught between the life he built and the family she would die to protect.
Crimson wants to keep Jade clean of his world.
Jade is done being protected from it.
As secrets surface and the lines between family, loyalty, and love disappear, Jade must decide whether to keep living in pieces, or step fully into the life she has spent years denying.
She never wanted the crown.
But she is done pretending she will not wear it.
JADE is the smoldering second novel in The De León Dynasty crime romance series, perfect for readers who love morally gray antiheroes, obsessive slow burn, family loyalty, and heroines who refuse to be saved.
Start with Book CRIMSON.
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October 21, 2026 by Twisted Thoughts Press
When the two lives Jade Monroe has fought to keep separate finally collide, hiding is no longer an option.
Jade has always lived in compartments. Banker. Daughter. Sister. The woman secretly in love with Cristóbal “Crimson” De León, Brooklyn’s most dangerous man.
She keeps the doors locked for a reason. The day her family learns who Crimson is to her, she could lose everything.
Then her detective brother-in-law follows a thread in a cold case that leads him somewhere he was never meant to look — surveillance photos of Jade with Crimson. Jade standing far too close to the empire her family has spent years trying to escape.
After eighteen months in prison, Crimson comes home to find his kingdom changed. The brother he was raised beside, Montoya, made a deal with a rival to hold the empire together, and now Victor Caine has a foothold in Brooklyn. Loyalties are fraying. His territory is compromised. And the woman he loves is caught between the life he built and the family she would die to protect.
Crimson wants to keep Jade clean of his world.
Jade is done being protected from it.
As secrets surface and the lines between family, loyalty, and love disappear, Jade must decide whether to keep living in pieces, or step fully into the life she has spent years denying.
She never wanted the crown.
But she is done pretending she will not wear it.
JADE is the smoldering second novel in The De León Dynasty crime romance series, perfect for readers who love morally gray antiheroes, obsessive slow burn, family loyalty, and heroines who refuse to be saved.
Start with Book CRIMSON.
Jade has always lived in compartments. Banker. Daughter. Sister. The woman secretly in love with Cristóbal “Crimson” De León, Brooklyn’s most dangerous man.
She keeps the doors locked for a reason. The day her family learns who Crimson is to her, she could lose everything.
Then her detective brother-in-law follows a thread in a cold case that leads him somewhere he was never meant to look — surveillance photos of Jade with Crimson. Jade standing far too close to the empire her family has spent years trying to escape.
After eighteen months in prison, Crimson comes home to find his kingdom changed. The brother he was raised beside, Montoya, made a deal with a rival to hold the empire together, and now Victor Caine has a foothold in Brooklyn. Loyalties are fraying. His territory is compromised. And the woman he loves is caught between the life he built and the family she would die to protect.
Crimson wants to keep Jade clean of his world.
Jade is done being protected from it.
As secrets surface and the lines between family, loyalty, and love disappear, Jade must decide whether to keep living in pieces, or step fully into the life she has spent years denying.
She never wanted the crown.
But she is done pretending she will not wear it.
JADE is the smoldering second novel in The De León Dynasty crime romance series, perfect for readers who love morally gray antiheroes, obsessive slow burn, family loyalty, and heroines who refuse to be saved.
Start with Book CRIMSON.