He's the most dangerous man in Brooklyn. She's the only one who's ever seen through him.
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CRIMSON is a slow-burn crime romance, and it does not end in a neat happy ending. It's Book One of five, and it ends on a choice that will wreck you a little — on purpose. If you want a love story that's safe, this isn't it. If you want one that earns every inch and leaves a mark, welcome.
Dark themes. A hero you're not supposed to forgive. A heroine who was never going to be rescued.
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A lower price. $2.99 now — a dollar less than it'll ever be for direct sale again. The second it goes on direct sale next month, it's $3.99, and it stays there until the Amazon release.
A bonus scene — the backstory that made him. Before the empire, before Jade, before anyone called him Crimson, there's a piece of his story that isn't in the book — and it's the key to the man he becomes. Yours to keep, only here.
48-hour early access to the Scene Premiere. The night Crimson and Jade first meet, brought to life — narrated, scored, and set inside the world of Velvet. Everyone gets to watch when it goes public. You'll get in two full days before anyone else.
Twelve years of silence. One photograph. And the most dangerous man in Brooklyn standing between her and the past.
Jade Monroe built her life on rules.
Rules keep you safe. Rules keep you alive. Rules keep you from becoming the kind of woman who waits for men to come home in handcuffs…or coffins.
So when someone from her father’s past resurfaces—watching her, following her, demanding payment for debts she never owed—Jade does what she’s always done:
She handles it alone.
Until Cristóbal “Crimson” De León makes that impossible.
Powerful. Calculated. Untouchable. A crime lord quietly building a legitimate empire on the bones of a criminal one. When Crimson offers Jade a lucrative consulting arrangement, she tells herself it’s strictly business. Professional. Controlled. Safe.
But nothing about Crimson is safe.
He notices too much. The fear she hides behind routine. The scars she never explains. And when the threat against her becomes undeniable, Crimson offers the one thing no one ever has:
Protection.
His resources. His power. His world.
The cost? Letting him in.
For a man who’s made control his religion, protecting Jade means breaking every rule he’s ever lived by. For a woman who’s survived by trusting no one, accepting his help means risking the one thing she’s fought to bury:
The truth about what happened twelve years ago.
As bodies surface and detectives close in, Jade finds herself trapped between the life she built and the man she never should have wanted.
Because in Brooklyn, debts don’t die.
And loving Crimson De León might be the most dangerous gamble of all.
CRIMSON is the pulse-pounding first book in The De León Dynasty crime romance series. If you love slow-burn tension, morally gray antiheroes, and protector romance that doesn't pull punches, then you'll devour Desiree Moodie's addictive tale.
Buy CRIMSON to enter the dynasty today!
"Rules keep you safe. Rules keep you alive.Rrules keep you from becoming the kind of woman who waits for men to come home in handcuffs or coffins."
— a thing she tells herself, often.
what early readers are saying
There wasn't a single moment where I felt like putting the book down. The tension, both romantic and suspenseful, was so well-maintained that I was completely hooked from the prologue to the final, heartbreaking chapter.
The gradual, deliberate way you built the connection between Crimson and Jade felt so real. The tension wasn't just about physical attraction; it was about two hyper-vigilant people slowly, cautiously letting their guards down.
I felt Jade’s struggle in my bones. Her constant battle between the safe, quiet life she meticulously built and her undeniable pull toward Crimson, a man who represents everything she ran from, is the heart of the story.