A romance novel about a Latin American
woman who flees poverty and gang violence
​to seek refuge in the United States

Teresa faces two bad options: One, endure poverty and gang violence in Honduras. Or two, ride the Mexican freight train, known as the beast, to the U.S. border. After gangs kill her father and boyfriend and threaten her and her brother, Teresa chooses the beast as the best of her bad options and travels with her teenage brother, José, and her six-year-old brother Pepe. When José falls from the beast to his death, Teresa abandons the beast, only to fall victim to a rapist. Her fate changes when a Christian missionary leads her to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. But even that does not end the tragedy in her life, until she finds happiness with Matthew, a Christian soccer star, and a better life in the United States.​

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