I Am Number 13

When Emmaline Cagney’s father dies on her graduation day, she foregoes college and heads to Honduras to volunteer with Nicaraguan refugees. It’s 1986. The Sandinista-Contra war rages in the jungles all around her. But when General James Wilkinson reenters her life during a hurricane, can she trust him? Or should she flee?

Because of his unsolved death, Wilkinson is stuck in an in-between world called Nowhere, a place he’s always used for his evil designs. Will he stick to his mission to help the Contras? Or will he ditch his mission to finally possess Emmaline?

As they fight to keep refugees safe and American involvement with the Contras secret from Congress, Em and Wilkinson careen toward a showdown that outstrips space and time, a place where nothing she knew about herself is true. And Em must confront the one person she never wanted to see again: her craven mother. Will Emmaline outwit the two people who peddled her childhood innocence before she runs out of time?

Author Biography

Andra Watkins has published works of fiction and non-fiction. Her acclaimed debut novel To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis inspired her walk of the ancient Natchez Trace, an adventure that led to the best selling memoir Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace. Her second novel, Hard To Die extended the Nowhere Series with an inventive new take on the uncharted fate of Theodosia Burr Alston, the fiery daughter of Alexander Hamilton’s murderer Aaron Burr. The Nowhere Series continues with I Am Number 13. Find her at andrawatkins.com