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The Girl That Was

Fourteen-year-old Nancy Bertram is graduating from middle school at the top of her class, an incredible achievement for a Salvadoran girl who nearly drowned with her parents while crossing the Rio Grande undocumented when she was four years old. Orphaned and alone, she was adopted and raised by the Bertram family in Asheville, North Carolina.

Her academic accomplishments attract the media’s attention, which is eager to find a positive story about undocumented immigrants in a country politically divided over immigration. As the story becomes global, news reaches her grandmother, who wants her granddaughter. With the support of her husband, a drug lord for a powerful cartel in Mexico, they have Nancy kidnapped.

Thomas Bertram, Nancy’s adopted Dad, and his best friend, Prince Alexander Poniatowski, Nancy’s di facto Uncle Alex, vow to do everything they can to get Nancy back. The two friends go hunting for the kidnappers, and ultimately, they find Nancy in Acapulco, Mexico, where she’s being held prisoner in the mansion of the drug lord guarded by an army of sicarios.

As the friends make plans to rescue Nancy at the risk of their lives, they suspect Nancy’s kidnapping is just the bait to lure them into a deadly trap and that a vengeful person they put in prison in the United States, the drug lord’s sister, is the puppet master pulling the strings. Thomas and Alex will not back down despite the extreme situation and seemingly insurmountable odds. They are determined to rescue Nancy and make everyone involved in her kidnapping, including the drug lord and his sister, receive the punishment they deserve to the full extent of the law—their law.

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Golden

A Multicultural Action Thriller

A professional contract killer tries to assassinate Alex in Mexico City, and he has no idea who might have ordered the hit–because there is a large pool of suspects. A notorious womanizer, Alex is a well-known T.V. star in romantic soap operas recently cast in a blockbuster Hollywood film with a dark side unbeknownst to his adoring fans: he is also a soldier of fortune and debt collector in the seedy Mexican underworld.
Since he cannot run to the authorities and risk exposing his secret life and harming his career, and fears more attempts on his life, he enlists the help of his best friend and business partner, THOMAS BERTRAM, to aid him in searching for the elusive mastermind.
The quest takes the two ex-Marine buddies to the dangerous Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro, the glitzy upper echelons of high society in Paris, the dark alleys of the Gothic quarter in Barcelona, the glamorous Hollywood studios in L.A., the vibrant streets and nightclubs of Miami, and the quaint, artistic city of Asheville nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
As they close in on the person or persons pulling the strings, Thomas and Alex realize they have stumbled onto something more treacherous than they could have imagined. And as their hunt for the truth leads them relentlessly to the highest levels of power and to uncovering the most clandestine of secrets within the hallowed halls of the U.S. government, Thomas and Alex are determined to expose the shadowy people behind the assassination attempts and make them pay with their lives if necessary.