Stilettos & Slippers: A Cartel Novel - Paperback

by Aleita Kay (Author)

Santana Mitchells has only wanted one thing ever since she was a little girl: to be a Prima Ballerina in a world-renowned dance company. However, the day her parents were killed in an accident, was the day she decided that ballet was a thing of the past. Eleven years later, now Santana is left with the responsibility of caring for her little brother Sauni and her ailing grandmother. Life isn't glamorous on the Southside of Chicago, but the reality is, the checks she receives from her job as a hospice care worker along with her grandmother's social security checks are what keep the lights on and food on the table. When tragedy strikes yet again and Santana's grandmother passes away, Santana is left shouldering the burden and bills all by herself. It isn't until the opportunity to dance with a prominent ballet company surfaces, that Santana considers picking up her slippers again. With no way to pay for her bills and ballet school, Santana turns to her Stripper best friend Monet who suggests that she work with her in one of Chicago's most profitable strip clubs. Ballet Slippers by day and six inch stilettos at night, Santana dances her way towards her dreams of becoming a Prima.

Fresno Baptiste was just a regular hustler from New York until one phone call changed the entire course of his life. A conversation with his estranged father, had him packing up the life he knew in New York to move to Chicago to sit on the throne as the heir to one of the biggest crime syndicates to ever come out of Haiti. His father had just handed over the keys to the Wa San Cartel- The Blood Kings-, but there's a catch. In order for Fresno to assume his place at the top, her must marry the daughter of a rival cartel from Colombia to establish peace and end a war that has been going on for over a decade. After consideration, he willingly accepts the hand of Analisa Sanchez, daughter of Cartel leader Lorenzo Sanchez who runs La Familia De Oro-The Golden Family . All seems well until secrets from Analisa's past come back to threaten the life of the Blood King's new leader.

As the Wa San Cartel and La Familia De Oro seal the deal to bring their families together as one united powerhouse-a celebratory night at the Chicago Ballet starts a downward spiral in Fresno's life that he isn't sure he can stop-or wants to stop. As he watches the brown skin beauty with the satin slippers glide across the stage, she unknowingly takes his heart prisoner, but where there is beauty; chaos is never far behind. All is fair in a game of love and war.