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Gifted fifteen-year-old Francisco Guzman has become an internationally renowned concert pianist, touring the world under the auspices of his music conservatory. That gives his mother, Posadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman, plenty of reason to worry--and that's magnified when she learns that he's in Mexico's crime-ridden Mazatlan for a concert series where he may be the target for scam artists and kidnappers. Estelle's worries go from bad to worse when her uncle -- a man she didn't know existed -- surfaces in an attempt to mend family ties and leaves a trail of corpses in his wake. Estelle's attempts to glean family history -- the story of her childhood in Tres Santos over the border -- from her adopted mother, a woman now in her nineties, go nowhere.