A New Threat Emerges, an Old Rival Returns
For seventy-eight years, the Republic of Texas has been a dead, isolated nation, cut off from its motherland to the north by a militarized, impenetrable border. That ends today.

Six months after overthrowing the Dallasite regime and taking control of Texas, Ernesto "El Flaco" Guzm n is suddenly forced to cope with a new, unexpected adversary: The United States of America. As he faces down the Americans, the resurgent forces of his longtime enemy, the Reverend Zachariah Wright, threaten to undermine everything Guzm n has spent his lifetime fighting for.

With his enemies closing in, Guzm n needs the help of his trusted reader and secret weapon, Soledad Paz, now more than ever. But can he still rely on her, or is Soledad's loyalty--like his own tenuous hold on power--a thing of the past?