Although she’s the daughter of landed Mexican aristocracy, Margarita Estrada believes the people’s revolution is in the right. When she meets dashing bandit general Carlos Montaña, she has even more reason to espouse the revolutionary cause.
Then Carlos crashes her family’s Twelfth Night fiesta and her life erupts in totally unexpected ways, bringing her innocence to a sudden end. Can Margarita protect her family from brutality and also live her fantasy as a revolutionary’s mistress?
Chapter 1El Rancho Estrada, Estado Chihuahua December 23, 1913 “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” Margarita Engracia Estrada y Calderon paced the comfortable room she shared with her younger sister as she read from the textbook she’d brought home for the holidays. “That’s what the Russians are seeking, what the French and the Norte Americanos revolted and fought for. It is what is right, hermanita. The oppression of the peasant and the working class must end!” Concepcion Teresa rolled over on her lace-canopied bed and yawned. “I find it hard to get excited about all this politics and struggle,” she said. “How can you grow so inflamed over the plight of the least of the people? I’d rather talk about the gran baile Papa is going to hold for the Twelfth Ni