Love and Fear

A young doctor, Frank Ballard, marries Isabel Lara. No one would ever imagine that while on their honeymoon in Mexico, the newlyweds would become involved in drug smuggling. It was something that would force them to live in fear for almost half a decade and prompt two attempts on their lives. This is a tale of two couples, one, a young Mexican American woman and a young doctor, the other, the woman's sister and a clever young law student. It is the tale if the one couple's love and the fear that burdens them for many years. And it is the tale of the other couple's stormy relationship. The story embraces almost half a decade of conflict between good and evil in the war on drugs. The conclusion is heartwarming, but contains an omen for a dark future.