Life in Mexico is a death sentence for Emiliano and his sister Sara.To escape the violent cartel that is after them, they flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping that they can find a way to bring their pursuers to justice.Sara turns herself over to the authorities to apply for asylum.Emiliano enters the country illegally, planning to live with their father.But now Sara is being held indefinitely in a detention facility, awaiting an asylum hearing that may never come, finding it harder every day to hold on to her faith and hope. Life for Emiliano is not easy either. Everywhere he goes, it's clear that he doesn't belong. And all the while, the cartel is closing in on them...Emiliano sets off on a tense and dangerous race to find justice, but can he expose the web of crimes from his place in the shadows?Award-winning author Francisco X. Stork's powerful follow-up to Disappeared delves with his usual... Views: 260
At thirty, Ben Prescott, successfully running the family business and by all accounts living an idyllic life just as planned, is still haunted by thoughts of the girl who got away over seven years ago. At twenty-nine, adventure seeker Ky is still traveling the world in search of a place to call home, only she can't help thinking home was never a place, but a boy she left behind when his perfect plans felt like chains they both needed freed from. Thus begins the tale of two people torn apart by distance and time, bound only by their enduring love and a series of hidden letters which just might lead them to the happy ending they thought was lost for good. Views: 260
A storm forced Blake Durant to seek shelter in a broken-down roadhouse. That was where he first met the mysterious gunman-gambler called Parrant. And it was also the moment Blake's life turned upside-down ... because Parrant turned out to be trouble all the way.The next time they met, it was through a curtain of gunsmoke. Men died during that confrontation, and Blake found himself being hunted by a town marshal and a vicious prison guard, both of whom wanted to see him swing from a gallows. In order to prove his innocence, Blake had to make his way back to the roadhouse to find someone to vouch for him – but all he found when he got there were more bodies. All at once he could feel that noose growing ever tighter around his throat ... Views: 260
