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Mercedes Ron · 2026
A Marfil Saga · Book 1
He was my protection…and my greatest weakness.
Twenty-year-old Marfil Cortés lives the kind of life people imagine from afar. The daughter of a powerful businessman, she spends her days juggling Columbia classes, stolen hours at her ballet studio, and glittering nights in New York City. Her world feels untouchable—polished, predictable, safe.
Until the afternoon she’s abducted in Central Park.
Days later, Marfil opens her eyes in a hospital in New Orleans with no memory of what happened. There are no demands, no suspects, no explanation, only fear and the unsettling certainty that she is no longer safe. In the wake of the attack, her father tightens security and assigns her a bodyguard: Sebastian Moore.
Sebastian is controlled, distant, unreadable—a man whose discipline borders on dangerous. His quiet intensity unsettles and infuriates Marfil in equal measure, stirring resentment toward his presence, his rules, his unyielding watchfulness. Yet as the threat surrounding her refuses to fade, Sebastian becomes the one person she cannot escape…and the one she cannot stop wanting.
What begins as tension slowly ignites into something far more dangerous. Because the closer Marfil gets to Sebastian, the more she realizes the greatest risk may not be the one lurking in the shadows…but the feelings she never meant to have for the man sworn to protect her.
Lush, addictive, and charged with suspense, Drawn Together is a darkly romantic story about love and survival, temptation and control, and the cost of uncovering what others would rather keep buried.
If you love contemporary with bodyguard, kidnapping, suspense, then Drawn Together by Mercedes Ron is the book for you. It's the first book in the A Marfil Saga series, so it's the perfect place to start.
This book contains themes of: kidnapping, violence, and power imbalance.
These warnings are provided to help readers make informed choices about what they read. They may contain mild spoilers.
Drawn Together by Mercedes Ron has a spice level of 3/5 (warm — some steamy scenes).
Drawn Together is Book 1 in the A Marfil Saga series by Mercedes Ron. We recommend reading the series in order for the best experience.
Drawn Together features these tropes: bodyguard, kidnapping, suspense, touch her and die, forced proximity, slow burn, NYC setting, forbidden love.
Drawn Together by Mercedes Ron is a Contemporary novel.
Yes. Drawn Together contains themes of: kidnapping, violence, and power imbalance. These warnings are provided to help readers make informed choices.
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