'Now we make you ugly,' my mother said. 'The best thing you can be in Mexico is
an ugly girl.' On the mountainside in rural Mexico where Ladydi lives, being a g
irl is dangerous. Especially a pretty one.
If the Narcos hear there is a pret
ty girl on the mountain, they steal her. So when the black SUVs roll into town,
Ladydi and her friends hide in the warren of holes scattered across the mountain
, safely out of sight. Because the stolen girls don't come back.
Ladydi is de
termined to get out, to find a life that offers more than just the struggle to s
urvive. But she soon finds that the drug cartels have eyes everywhere, and the c
ities are no safer than the mountains.
