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After traveling to Tijuana, Mexico, Noemi and her mother are denied entry at the border and must find the refugee in charge of the notebook, an unofficial ledger of those waiting to cross into the United States. Includes author's note.

"Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Pequeña has her pride. And these three teens have one another. But, none of them have illusions about the town they've grown up in and the dangers that surround them. Even with the love of family, threats lurk around every corner. And when those threats become all too real, the trio knows they have no choice but to run: from their country, from their families, from their beloved home. Crossing from Guatemala...

"It was rough killer country. For months the border had been smoldering with hate. A gold-crazed gang was at work. Mexican was pitted against Texan and the countryside was an inferno of gunfire and bloodshed. Into this snakes' nest rode one man--Walt Slade, Texas Ranger. His mission was to bring justice and peace to the Border. But as the Ranger set out to find the hidden haunt of the vicious bandits, he became marked a target for death."--

Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel’s cash shipment before it reaches Mexico. Along with an old friend and a cartel-insider named Juanca, Mario sets off on the near-suicidal mission, which will leave him with either a cool...

Elizabeth Evans' brother paid the ultimate price as editor of a newspaper exposing the dangers along the U.S.-Mexican border. Determined to take up his cause, she's targeted and kidnapped by rogue general Manuel Diego. Texas Ranger Jake Nelson's job is to protect the border against rustlers and marauders. With Elizabeth's photograph in hand - a dark-haired beauty with smiling eyes - Jake and his men ride across the great river to rescue her.

Marc Charvein, Wells Fargo express messenger aboard a Southern Pacific train, and his old friend Carlos Sandoval need to find and stop the gang responsible for a series of train robberies. Speculating there is a connection between the gang and hand-minted gold coins being distributed to poor Mexicans by a caped nightrider, the two men set out to investigate. Meanwhile, their mutual friend Lucy Barkley is fired from her job as a Harvey Girl in Los...

"Rogue Madden was a laughing man. He and his friends never seemed to take anything too seriously and could find laughter in most situations. After a wild poker party at his ranch house in Mexico, Rogue receives a telegram that a party of nine guests would be arriving that day and bringing the loveliest surprise. When the travelers arrive, there are plenty of surprises. First, they announce they have been robbed by bandits only a few miles from the...

John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.