Goddess of the Flowers - E-book - ePub

Synopsis ofGODDESS OF THE FLOWERS            Xochitl (pronounced 'So She') Gonzales is a 15-year -old gorgeous street waif who is picked up by a cartel lord who gushes riches on the girl and her mother, asking only that she "train" new girls who come to his huge hacienda in exciting men, enticing them.            After witnessing the senseless murder of a soon-to-be trafficked girl, Xochitl realizes she must escape.
She takes two little girls with her to the Rio Grande, but when they are too scared to follow her, she  becomes a woman without a country, like a drug war version of the phrase "Neither from here or there."             Soon after her arrival in Texas, Xochitl is captured and sent to juvie where she  escapes into the DEA's underground where she discovers the transport avenues for human trafficking and drug distribution.
She is picked up by Guy Morton, a DEA agent who also exploits her knowledge but with whom she thinks she is in love. When he leaves her to the wiles of a competing gang, she loses faith in love. She is then picked up by a madam who takes her to her brothel and there decides to turn things around.            She calls Carlos in Mexico, realizing she had been pushed into a life of crime by him, and tells him that she is pregnant.
He doesn't care, he wants the money he would have gotten trafficking the five girls. Xochitl agrees to help him transport one more group of illegals into the States if Carlos sends her mother with them and in return, she'll get him his money.            The plan goes south when the DEA (Guy has wired her purse) interrupts the exchange and Xochitl barely escapes with her mother to Murrietta, California where she tries to hide as a food worker in a mall.
She delivers her son at the mall and is discovered by the cartel. In the hospital she escapes again in an Uber with the help of nurses andwhen she returns to the motel where she deposited her mother until she could get work, she realizes she needs to protect her newborn son and puts him on the floor of the back seat. She grabs the Uber driver's keys and rushes up to the room where she left her mother and finds her dead.
Upon leaving the room, she sees Carlos standing against the Uber, the driver dead in front of him and Xochitl goes down the stairs slowly, kisses Carlos, and grabs the gun as he gets excited. She kills him outright and his body slides down the outside of the motel wall.             Guy nstalls her as an undercover agent, offering witness protection, all charges are dropped if  she will work as a double agent.
But she must give up her newborn son so that he can live a good life.            Guy offers romance, Xochitl'must now train the girls to use  their wits to beat their captives.