Sold to a Cartel, Branded Five Times, and Now I Haunt My Father's City with Four Women at My Side
(2026)(The first book in the Storm Core series)
A novel by David Sung
They sold him for parts. He came back with five.
Cole Ashworth was seventeen when his father handed him to the Reyes cartel for an experimental brand program. Storm at the top of the spine. Flame under the sternum. Frost at the throat. Shadow at the collarbone. Venom over the liver.
The rest of the program died in their cells. Cole walked out into the Sonoran Desert and spent a year learning what five brands in one body could do.
Now he's in Phoenix. The Ashworths are going public. The cartels are going to war. His little brother is alive in a basement he wasn't supposed to find. And four women—a desert-witch partner, a cartel Empress, a Phoenix detective, and the doctor who wrote his name on a clipboard for three years—are about to find out what it means when a brand goes quiet near them.
He isn't a person anymore.
He's a draft. A cold spot. The thing that goes bump in the night.
And he has a very specific list of names.
Genre: HaremLit
Cole Ashworth was seventeen when his father handed him to the Reyes cartel for an experimental brand program. Storm at the top of the spine. Flame under the sternum. Frost at the throat. Shadow at the collarbone. Venom over the liver.
The rest of the program died in their cells. Cole walked out into the Sonoran Desert and spent a year learning what five brands in one body could do.
Now he's in Phoenix. The Ashworths are going public. The cartels are going to war. His little brother is alive in a basement he wasn't supposed to find. And four women—a desert-witch partner, a cartel Empress, a Phoenix detective, and the doctor who wrote his name on a clipboard for three years—are about to find out what it means when a brand goes quiet near them.
He isn't a person anymore.
He's a draft. A cold spot. The thing that goes bump in the night.
And he has a very specific list of names.
Genre: HaremLit
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