Diamonds and Graves: Dark Mafia Romance

VALERIA

For eleven years I was told my mother died in a fire.

She did not. She has been eight hundred metres from the counter where I ate lunch as a girl, under a garage, in a room with one chair and eleven books about a sea she hates, waiting for me to come down the stairs.

Now I have come down them. And the first thing her body did when I walked in was get ready for a blow.

She knows exactly what I have become. She has had it described to her four times a year.

The man who carried her out of that house is dead, and I am the one who killed him. The man who raised me is waiting in a courtyard under a lemon tree. And every single person who ever loved me has decided, kindly, what I could carry.

I am finished being decided for.

ALEK

I came to Culiacán without an address and without being asked.

She gave me a street and a time and stayed on the line for forty-one minutes without saying a word, and that was enough. I have a city that wants me back and a table that is voting on my chair, and I am sitting on a step in Sinaloa instead, because for the first time in her life somebody is going to come straight to her and not stop anywhere on the way.

There is a man at my table who paid for my father's death. There is a thing I said into my father's collar that nobody heard. And there are three words I have not been able to say since.

She told me it was not a trade. She told me one day.

One day is running out.

This is the third book in The Black Diamond Series. Reading order:

Diamonds and Blood.

Diamonds and Bullets.

Diamonds and Graves.

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E-bog: 26. september 2026