Book Description: When wild animals close in to stalk the remote village, no one in San Felipe is safe. After a vicious attach, Xóchitl's responsibility becomes complicated when she must care for her injured brother while avoiding nosey neighbors. With her family and her dreams in jeopardy the rugged realities of Xóchitl's daily life give her the resiliency to face disappointment, the danger of what lurks in the dark and the secret of B'alam.