Teresa Michelle Ruiz

Jim, a former Marine who lives a solitary life as a rancher along the Arizona-Mexican border, has his peaceful existence come crashing down when he tries to protect a boy on the run from members of a vicious cartel. When the boy's mother asks him to take her son to her family in Chicago, the two hit the road with the cartel's assassins in pursuit.

On the evening before Magdalena's 15th birthday Quinceañera celebration, she discovers that she's pregnant. Forced by her family to leave her home, she moves in with her uncle and gay cousin.