By the author, (2012). First edition - The first novel featuring deputy Margarita Ricos - she is "not just any deputy. Shes smart. Shes courageous. Shes a twenty-five-year-old Chicana with attitude who grew up on the edge of the United States in Terlingua, Texas. There, the peoples and cultures of two countries are blended, more than separated, by the once-fierce Rio Grande. Terlingua is an unincorporated settlement built around a mercury mining ghost town of the same name." 269 pp. ISBN: 978-1470192846.