Digital content provided by hoopla. Read by Pete Cross and Lauren Ezzo.
Summary:
In the dying cornfields of his family's farm, seventeen-year-old Cade finds a girl broken and bleeding. She has one request: hide me. Tucked away in an abandoned barn on the edge of the farm, the mysterious Jane Doe starts to heal and details from her past begin to surface. A foster kid looking for a way out, Jane got caught up in the wrong crowd and barely escaped with her life. Cade has a difficult past of his own. He's been trapped in the border town of Tanner, Texas, his whole life. His dad is a drunk. His mom is gone. Money is running out. Cade is focused on one thing: a football scholarship-his only chance. Cade and Jane spend their nights in the barn planning their escapes and their days with Cade's friends: sweet, artistic Mateo and his determined sister Jojo, who vows to be president one day. But it's not that easy to disappear. Just across the border in a city in Mexico lies the life Jane desperately wants to leave behind-a past filled with drugs and danger, information she never wanted, and a cartel boss who is watching her every move.
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