After enduring a torturous ordeal in a drug-running operation gone awry, Camila is left to rot in a jail cell just across the Mexican border. She wishes for death, and death may be but a swallow away. But what Camila finds when she takes the plunge . . . may be far worse than any death.

On a hot day in late June, four boys head out into the pasture with a bag a firecrackers. If and when they return, their innocence will be left behind amongst a flurry of exploded Black Cats . . . and blood.