Foster care hardened her, but college molded her. Fleeing her foster home after seducing the wrong man's husband, Rebecca enrolls in college seeking purpose. Instead, she finds Stacy—a predator in designer heels who sees Rebecca's potential. Stacy teaches her not business, but weaponization—how to turn ambition into blackmail, desperation into currency, and extract value from everyone, mercilessly. Under Stacy's guidance, Rebecca learns a dangerous lesson: everything and everyone has a price. When Stacy graduates, Rebecca proves her skills by pulling off a score that changes everything, robbing the wrong men—a governor's son and Cesar Hernandez's cartel—of millions in blood money. The governor's son dies, and now his father sends twin hitmen, Malachi and Marcus, for Rebecca's life. Cesar dispatches his own killers. Stacy reappears—not as a friend, but as an equal Rebecca underestimated. Lines are crossed, loyalties shatter, vengeance multiplies. Caught between political power, cartel violence, and a former mentor's wrath, Rebecca makes a critical mistake—falling for the wrong man. Desire becomes a death sentence, trust a weapon. Survival means becoming the monster they underestimated. When the world hunts you, there are only two options: Kill or be killed. TREACHEROUS WAYS Book One: The Price of a Soul Where ambition is foreplay, betrayal is currency, and power is always paid in blood.