The book tells the gripping story of a mother willing to risk her life to find her stolen child.
San Diego, CA – WEBWIRE – Monday, August 21, 2023
Ms. Domeykos mastery of the first-person narrative transports you into the gritty realities and sublime emotional peaks everywhere to be found throughout this engrossing story. Thomas J. Schum, Amazon Customer
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Sacrifice on the Border follows young mother, Yoali, as she embarks on a journey to find her stolen child. The story is about the love of a mother despite the chaotic and lethal border that separates her from her child. It is a gripping tale of love and adventure interwoven with the dark themes of violence, corruption, and drug & child trafficking.
Yoali, a woman from a small town called Queseria, crosses the Rio Grande with her child in order to reach the U.S. border and start a new life. However, her child, Elisito gets stolen while they are crossing the river. Guayo, Elisitos father, tells Yoali the child has drowned. Little does she know that Guayo has kidnapped her son in order to sell him on the black market.
When Yoali learns about her son, she does everything to find him. Frank, a policeman, offers to help Yoali go south of the border to track him down. On their journey they are joined by the Osos, a biker family who says they know the safest routes through the drug-infested territory. Along the way, Frank and Yoali encounter goodness and malevolence, treachery, despair and magic and also find each other.
Will Yoali find her child? Find out about it in Cecilia Domeykos Sacrifice on the Border: A Mother Searches for Her Stolen Child, available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Learn more about the author and her work at www.ceciliadomeyko.com.
Sacrifice on the Border: A Mother Searches for Her Stolen Child
Author| Cecilia Domeyko
Published Date| February 9, 2020
Publisher| Editorial Akeru Publicaciones
Genre| Adventure
Authors Biography
Cecilia Domeyko was born in Chile and spent her childhood traveling to various parts of the world with her diplomat parents. She began her career as a foreign correspondent in Washington, DC writing for Latin American magazines and newspapers. She turned to filmmaking, producing documentaries about human rights, and the rights of women. Her work has aired in the US on PBS and Univision, and internationally on ABC Australia and Canal Plus. Her series of fiction programs for television aired on CNN-espaol in 18 Latin American countries and nationally in the US on Univision and Telemundo.
Her novel Sacrifice on the Border tells the story of Yoali, a woman whose toddler is stolen when she crosses the border into the U.S. While fiction, the story is based on Cecilias research into the plight of migrant families and talks about the issue of child trafficking on the border.
A love and adventure story rolled into one, the characters each tell their own version of events, moving the storyline forward to the heartrending finale.
The novel had its first launch in Miami, Florida at Altamira Books in October of 2017. A second launch took place at the Embassy of Chile in Washington, DC on November 14, 2019.
Cecilia Domeyko lives in Washington, DC, and her Spanish version of the novel is available for purchase online.