To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her plan. Luz needs to find the daughter she left behind years earlier, but she knows she may die trying. Her husband is El Principe, a key player in a high-powered drug cartel, a business he runs with the same violence he has used to keep Luz his perfect, obedient wife.

Includes "Reading Group Guide" (10 pages). Includes short story: Must come down from the forthcoming collection: Sweet nothing (22 pages). "Originally published in hardcover by Mulholland Books, May 2013"--Title page verso.