Living in a neighborhood of drug dealers and gangs in New Mexico, high school junior Eddie Corazon, a juvenile delinquent-in-training, falls in love with a girl who inspires him to rethink his life and his choices.
Three young people from very different backgrounds--the son of a wealthy New Mexican rancher, a Navajo slave, and a young Texan soldier--who find themselves held for ransom by a pair of horse thieves learn to look beyond their differences.
"Andi," a teenage girl who has been living in the mountains of New Mexico for four months ever since waking up at a bed-and-breakfast with amnesia, meets fourteen-year-old Mark Dark Hope and together they set out to discover who "Andi" really is and why she was abducted.
The second Christmas after their mother has died, Josefina and her three sisters find that participating in the traditions of Las Posadas helps keep memories of Mam?a alive.