The Conspiracy (ePub)

Eight years have passed since the deaths of Capri Olindo's ex-husband, Greg Crenski, and his best friend, Mape Belata, were officially ruled a murder-suicide. Though well aware it constituted irrefutable proof the men had been murdered, Pree continues to withhold from authorities the nearly half-million dollars that had been left on her doorstep the night of the killings for fear of casting suspicion on James, her son. Upon finding the real killer, Pree is forced to choose between following the law and doing what she believes to be the right thing.

Pree is temporarily sidetracked from her goal of proving her son's innocence when her daughter-in-law, Bonnie, decides to join a group of old friends for a joyride to Mexico and back to throw a lavish quinceanera, a traditional Mexican celebration to honor a girl's fifteenth birthday, for the granddaughter of one of the friends. After a small amount of persuasion, Pree agrees to go along to help tend to her adored grandchild. As a precaution, Bonnie's wealthy uncle insists on hiring two men, one of whom speaks fluent Spanish, to go along as protectors and to drive the oversized motor home in which the women will be traveling. So begins a series of twists, turns, and surprises, involving drug smuggling, a botched kidnapping, murder, witness stalking, and pursuit of a seemingly invisible drug lord by a joint task force of Mexican and American agents.