Hurdles in the Dark by Elvira K. Gonzalez

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/70144 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hurdles in the Dark Author: Elvira K. Gonzalez Narrator: Elvira K. Gonzalez Format: mp3 Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins Release date: 05-28-24 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 23 ratings Genres: Sports & Outdoors Publisher's Summary: Twenty-four hours: that's how long fourteen-year-old Elvira Gonzalez is given to come up with the $40,000 she needs to save her kidnapped mother from a drug cartel. It's 2006 and Elvira's hometown of Laredo, Texas, has become engulfed by the Mexican Drug War. Elvira's life is unraveling around her—setting her on a harrowing path that leads her to being locked up in one of South Texas's worst juvenile detention centers. After Elvira's released from juvie, she's resolved to never go back. That's when her unexpected salvation arrives in the form of 33-inch-high plastic hurdles.