In the midst of a coup in Mexico and a torrid love affair with a gringo CIA agent, Ana Valdez came to lead her nation to healing from the horrors of the cartel wars. This fiction occurs in the novel, The Z Redemption. But Ana’s privileged childhood in Mazatlán in the 1980s forged her courageous character and feisty spirit. If you know her as a girl, you will want to know her as an adult. Click the DANIEL WETTA PUBLISHING LINK, download this short story prequel for FREE!

I write my stories to let you know about brave people I met while living in Mexico. Almost everything I write comes from the headlines of Spanish-sourced news reports in Mexico and the USA and from my own personal experiences. I have found that the happiest, most fulfilled people are the ones who live and die passionately. Outraged and craving justice, often courageous because of love and carnal yearning for another, the characters in my stories move with the energy of bonfire. I have known these people in real life, and I envy them.