Montezuma County Sheriff's detective, Jude Devine doesn't face too many challenges based in remote Paradox Valley, where most of the crime involves hiker assaults, campsite thefts, and cattle rustling. However, when the body of local teenager shows up with a stake through her heart, Jude finds herself leading an investigation no one wants to touch. As Jude uncovers the truth about the murder and tries to save a young girl from being forced into a...

"On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction--the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas--has long been the symbol of Cortés's bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched...

"Historical novel about the origin of the Aztec empire told through the eyes of three main characters: Moctezuma, Tlacaelel and Ayocuán. They started together as friends, but poilitics and religion tear their friendship apart as Moctezuma takes control of the Valley of Anahuac" -- Amazon.

"Con once naves, algo más de cuatrocientos soldados, once capitanes, una decena de caballos y unas cuantas piezas de artillería, Hernán Cortés desembarca en 1519 en las costas de lo que ahora se conoce como México. Cuando toma la decisión de quemar las naves ya no hay vuelta atrás. A partir de ahí empieza una de las aventuras más colosales de la historia de la humanidad, la marcha hacia Tenochtitlan, el centro del mundo, el corazón del inexpugnable...

"The convergence of Cortes and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America." Landing on the Mexican coast on the eve of Good Friday, 1519, Hernan Cortes felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and civilize the first advanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. For Montezuma, leader of the Mexicans, 1519 (known in their advanced astronomical system as "One Reed") was...