title: Seductress
author: Lucero, Isabel
description: My name is Reina Wilde, and I wasn't always a seductress. Once upon a time, I was just a girl who fell in love with a boy. Solomon King. He was unlike anyone I had ever met. He was beautiful, brave, and honest, but he was a violent psychopath. And I worshiped him. Not meant to be together, I was ripped from his world without being able to say goodbye. In the darkest time of my life, my parents turned their backs on me and gave me an ultimatum: either conform to their rules and expectations or get out. Unwilling to be a conformist any longer, I left, but I left a different person. I'm unhinged now, choosing to live life to the extreme. To hell with the rules. I'll choose insanity over normalcy any day. I spent too many years living under the thumb of my strict and controlling parents, and now I crave the freedom of living in chaos. Disowned and penniless, I became a seductress. I use my looks to seduce men into giving me money. If they don't give it willingly, I steal it. When it's all said and done, I get what I want, when I want, no matter how it has to happen. The men I seduce aren't men I'd ever want to be with. I'd never be with someone who was weak enough to get conned. I don't want anyone who's soft or compliant. I don't want gentle or well-behaved. I want a madman. I want Solomon King.I've heard the stories about him. He's sexier than ever, more violent and building a reputation that would make most people stay away from him. But I'm doing whatever's necessary to prove to him that we belong together. I just need to find him first, even if that means putting myself in his path by getting close to his biggest enemy-the boss of the Philadelphia mob.I may be playing with fire, but I'll happily be consumed as long as he wants to join me in the flames.