Then You Are Free
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 14 2025
Pages: 390
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Jesse Peña Rivera, a young Venezuelan immigrant, lives in the border city of El Paso, Texas, where every dollar is hard-earned and every dream harder to reach. With his father struggling to find consistent work and his family stretched thin, Jesse feels the weight of invisibility-the kind that settles deep into a young man's chest and tells him he'll never fly.Then he meets Cielo Rosario Jiménez-a Puerto Rican girl with music in her laugh, and a belief in Jesse that startles him. Their love grows across salsa dance floors, homemade dinners, and stargazing nights. But love, for Jesse, only intensifies the pressure to become something more. When he's offered an entry point into a smuggling operation through a charismatic pilot named Michael, Jesse seizes the opportunity, hoping flight will bring him freedom and a life that is good for Cielo. As Jesse learns to fly under the wing of Armando, an aging Colombian pilot with cartel ties, he becomes a trusted runner, flying product over the desert under the radar. But what begins as a thrill slowly curdles into something darker. A single false identity turns into a stack of them. A cash deposit becomes a cover story. And a mission goes sideways
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