Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls (Cece Rios #1)
By: Kaela Rivera
4.34
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Living in the remote town of Tierra del Sol is dangerous, especially in the criatura months, when p…
Want to Read $ 7.99"I was wandering through the cerros - the hills of the desert beyond town - at night, barely avoiding low heads of cactus. In the dark, their spines looked more menacing than they did under the sun. But then, I was a child. Everything looked menacing in the dark."-Kaela Rivera, Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls (Cece Rios #1)
"I was wandering through the cerros - the hills of the desert beyond town - at night, barely avoiding low heads of cactus. In the dark, their spines looked more menacing than they did under the sun. But then, I was a child. Everything looked menacing in the dark."-Kaela Rivera, Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls (Cece Rios #1)
"Because if I was doing the right thing, if I was following all the goodness I believed in, that was good enough. I didn't care how much Little Lion yelled at me or hated me, or how much I reminded him of his last Bruja; I would treat him like a person. That's what I believed in. That was who I was. I wouldn't let anything - pretending to be a bruja, my town's disdain or Little Lion's anger - rob me of myself."-Kaela Rivera, Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls (Cece Rios #1)
"Because if I was doing the right thing, if I was following all the goodness I believed in, that was good enough. I didn't care how much Little Lion yelled at me or hated me, or how much I reminded him of his last Bruja; I would treat him like a person. That's what I believed in. That was who I was. I wouldn't let anything - pretending to be a bruja, my town's disdain or Little Lion's anger - rob me of myself."-Kaela Rivera, Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls (Cece Rios #1)
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