La Chingasa

<p><strong>El Paso 1954. The border city where truth and lies bleed together in the desert heat. Where being the wrong person-or knowing the wrong thing-can get you killed.</strong></p><p>Lucía Torres is a private investigator who specializes in cases the police won't touch. She's survived in a dangerous world by being smart being careful and never taking cases that might get her killed.</p><p>Until the day Lila Reyes walks into her office with a dead husband and a box of photographs.</p><p><strong>THE CASE THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING</strong></p><p>Rafael Reyes was a soldier at Fort Bliss who died in what the Army called a training accident. But the photographs he left behind tell a different story-one that involves Congressman William Walker rising political star and decorated war hero executing a Mexican man in cold blood.</p><p>It's evidence that could destroy Walker's career. Send him to prison for murder. End the reign of one of the most powerful and corrupt men in Texas.</p><p>It's also evidence that gets people killed.</p><p><strong>CORRUPTION RUNS DEEP</strong></p><p>Partnering with Captain Tomás Ramírez-one of the few honest cops in El Paso's notoriously corrupt police department-Lucía begins building an impossible case against a man who has the law the money and the guns on his side. But as they dig deeper into Walker's web of corruption the body count starts rising.</p><p>Witnesses disappear. Evidence goes missing. Rafael's family is terrorized. And Walker's fixer the cold and efficient Mitchell begins systematically eliminating anyone who knows too much.</p><p>The message is clear: walk away or die.</p><p><strong>LOVE IN THE SHADOWS</strong></p><p>Amid the escalating danger Lucía finds unexpected sanctuary at El Lamento a cantina where she meets Luz Morales-a singer whose voice can break hearts and whose presence offers the first real comfort Lucía has felt in years.</p>