DAUNTLESS (SECRETS OF THE ANDES Book 1)

Kuri is only seventeen when she's cast from her Andean home by a ruthless tyrant. Pocessing only her dog and a few belongings, she flees to a dangerous metropolis to survive on the streets until she can find work. Kuri is naïve in the sprawling concrete jungle and soon, human traffickers lure her deep into the Amazon jungle to work for a gold-toothed bully who runs a camp for kidnappers. Surrounded by criminals and a rainforest teeming with jaguars, snakes and crocodiles, Kuri is trapped. The horizon darkens as torrential monsoons creep closer and her hope for a better life slips away...Then she discovers two American hostages, Brent, and his brother Ryan, chained in a bamboo hut. They are teenagers from an affluent world while Kuri has always lived on a dirt floor shared with chickens. She feels both years ahead and centuries behind the young captives, but they instantly share one thing in common. They must escape their captors or die.Their struggles to outrun the ruthless killers, change the trio in ways no one could've imagined. With love, sacrifice, and courage as their only weapons, Kuri and the blue-eyed gringos form a bond a friendship that can't be broken, even in the face of death.