
Carlos is dealing with his past, his current reputation, getting reacquainted with his brother, and the complex social situation at school. One of the first people he meets is Kiara, an honor student who has been assigned to escort him around school for the first few days. He is resentful, handsome and cocky, and he has no plans to abide by anyone's rules. Now Carlos finds himself on his way to Colorado to live with his brother (now reformed and in college) and attend his last year of high school. He grew up in Chicago, but when his brother got involved with gangs, his mother moved the family, sans father, to Mexico. Seventeen-year-old Carlos has moved around a lot in his life. But Carlos and Kiara soon discover that in matters of the heart, the rules of attraction overpower the social differences that conspire to keep them apart. He’s even more thrown by his strong feelings for the professor’s daughter, Kiara, who is nothing like the girls he’s usually drawn to. In Boulder, Carlos has to live with one of Alex’s college professors - and he feels completely out of place. And ties to his Mexican gang aren’t easy to break, even hundreds of miles away in Colorado. Trouble is, Carlos just wants to keep living on the edge. Even worse, Alex forced Carlos to come back from Mexico to join him on the straight and narrow path. So when Alex chose to get jumped out of the gang for a chance at a future with his gringa girlfriend, Brittany, Carlos felt shocked and betrayed. Carlos Fuentes idolized his older brother, Alex, when he was a member of the Latino Blood.
