Fourteen-year-old Nancy Bertram is graduating from middle school at the top of her class, an incredible achievement for a Salvadoran girl who nearly drowned with her parents while crossing the Rio Grande undocumented when she was four years old. Orphaned and alone, she was adopted and raised by the Bertram family in Asheville, North Carolina.
Her academic accomplishments attract the media’s attention, which is eager to find a positive story about undocumented immigrants in a country politically divided over immigration. As the story becomes global, news reaches her grandmother, who wants her granddaughter. With the support of her husband, a drug lord for a powerful cartel in Mexico, they have Nancy kidnapped.
Thomas Bertram, Nancy’s adopted Dad, and his best friend, Prince Alexander Poniatowski, Nancy’s di facto Uncle Alex, vow to do everything they can to get Nancy back. The two friends go hunting for the kidnappers, and ultimately, they find Nancy in Acapulco, Mexico, where she’s being held prisoner in the mansion of the drug lord guarded by an army of sicarios.
As the friends make plans to rescue Nancy at the risk of their lives, they suspect Nancy’s kidnapping is just the bait to lure them into a deadly trap and that a vengeful person they put in prison in the United States, the drug lord’s sister, is the puppet master pulling the strings. Thomas and Alex will not back down despite the extreme situation and seemingly insurmountable odds. They are determined to rescue Nancy and make everyone involved in her kidnapping, including the drug lord and his sister, receive the punishment they deserve to the full extent of the law—their law.
