Don Jesus de Anza is one of Mexico's most powerful cartel bosses. His mother, Maria, has political influential throughout Central and North America. Together they wield tremendous authority. They find new, innovative ways of smuggling drugs into the United States. But business ties with terrorists and a dark family secret threatens to topple their empire. Aeron is the world's most dangerous assassin. Her FBI and MI-6 files state, "She makes the Jackal look like a common street thug." When she's hired by a prominent Texas millionaire she finds one man standing in her way - Texas Ranger Byron Vogt. Ranger Byron Vogt returns in the action thriller, "Cross Reference." When he is ordered on a unique assignment he discovers that Middle East terrorists have found a new desert from which to launch their attacks on the United States -- One that is too close to home.