Winner of the Internation Latino Book Award

A Justice Hustlers Novel
 
Shes beautiful, unpredictableand on the run from dangerous men. But this
ex-side chick is ready to risk everything to help others in trouble . . .
 
Fed up with her married Miami boyfriend, savvy Dulce has no problem stealing his
drug-dealer stash and fleeing to her family in the Caribbean. But when she gets bored in rural Santo Domingo, she escapes on a sugar daddy adventure to Puerto Rico. Her new life is one endless party, until she's caught in Hurricane Mariaand witnesses the brutal collision of colonization and climate change, as well as the international vultures who plunder the tragedy for a financial killing, making shady use of relief funds to devastate the island even more. Broke, traumatized, and stranded, Dulces only chance to get back to New York may be a sexy, crusading journalist whos been pursuing her. But is she hustling him or falling for him?

Meanwhile, New York-based mastermind thief Marisol already has her hands full fleecing a ruthless CEO whos stealing her familys land in Puerto Rico, while trying to get her relatives out alive after the hurricane. An extra member in her crew could be game-changing, but shes wary of Dulces unpredictability and reputation for drama. Still, Dulces determination to get justice draws Marisol in, along with her formidable Lower East Side Womens Health Clinics heist squad. But their race-against-the-clock plan is soon complicated by powerful men who turn deadly when ex-side chicks step out of the shadows and demand to call the shots . . .

Praise forAya de León and her novels
 
Staking out space for women of color in the heist-fiction genre, Aya de Leóns smart, sly writing is a knockout.
Andi Zeisler,Bitchmagazine
 
This well-written and enjoyable installment in de Leóns unique, feminist, urban crime-fiction series . . . infuses satisfying power in both plot and character.
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