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After years of collecting names, dates, and payments, her purpose shifts as she begins to care for the exploited women inside the empire. The prologue introduces her careful double life, her editor’s investigative motives, and the moment she is selected to work Cassian Sorrentino’s private floor.","DARK THRONE  \nBook 2 of Empire of Sinners  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2026 Tessa Knox  \nAll rights reserved  \nThe characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.  \nNo part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written  \npermission of the publisher.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nDark Throne  \nCopyright  \nPrologue  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nEpilogue  \nThank you  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nHe said he could always spot a liar.  \nI smiled, poured his drink, and planted a wire in his study.  \nI just didn't plan on falling in love with the man I was sent to  \ndestroy.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPROLOGUE  \nMila  \nTwo years is a long time to be someone you're not.  \nLong enough that the lie starts to feel like skin —something you forget you're wearing until the seams itch at three in the morning, when you're lying in a rented apartment with bare walls and burner phones and a name stitched into your chest that doesn't belong to you. Camila Reyes. That's who I am now. That's who I've been since I walked through the back entrance of Club Noire with a forged résumé, a push-up bra, and the kind of smile that says I'll do whatever you need, just tell me where to stand.  \nTwo years of pouring drinks I couldn't afford in a life I wasn't living. Two years of laughing at jokes that made my stomach turn, of pressing my back against VIP booth walls while men with blood money and Brioni suits decided whether I was worth a second glance. Two years of taking notes in my head —names, dates, amounts —and driving home at four in the morning to type them into an encrypted file on a laptop hidden beneath a loose floorboard.  \nI told myself it was worth it. Every time the fear crept in, every time I caught a bouncer watching me a beat too long, every time I heard a whispered story about what happened to the last girl who asked the wrong question —I told myself the story was worth it.  \nThe Sorrentino family had operated in Miami for three generations. They owned nightclubs the way other families owned gas stations —casually, almost boringly, as if the millions flowing through them were nothing more than pocket change. But behind the velvet ropes and the bottle service and the bass-heavy music that shook the walls of Club Noire, there was an  \nempire built on laundered cash, political corruption, and a silence so deep it had its own gravity.  \nNo journalist had ever gotten inside. Not really. A few had tried —one ended up discredited, another simply vanished, and a third published a watered-down piece that barely scratched the surface before legal threats buried it. The Sorrentinos didn't just protect their secrets; they consumed anyone who came looking for them.  \nBut I was different. I was patient.  \nI didn't come in swinging. I came in small. I got a job as a cocktail waitress on the main floor, worked my shifts without complaint, kept my head down and my heels high. I learned the rhythm of the place —who came in on what nights, which managers skimmed from the registers, which bartenders dealt on the side. I built a map of the operation from the ground up, piece by piece, like assembling a puzzle in the dark.  \nMy editor, Davis, called me his \"long game. \" He liked the poetry of it —the idealistic young journalist who'd sacrifice years of her life to expose the rot underneath Miami's glittering nightlife. He ran the investigative desk atthe Miami Independent Tribune, and he'd greenlit my pitch with the kind of gleam in his eye that told me he was already writing the headline. I didn't mind. I needed his funding, his resources, his protection. 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