Esperanza

"When Tess Livingston got off the bus at a roadsid stop high in the Andes, she couldn't quite remember how she got there. She's an FBI agent, and the last thing she remembered was tracing a group of counterfeiters to Ecuador. But now she's at the Bodega Cielo, waiting for the bus to Esperanza--or at least that's where her ticket says she's going. Ian Ritter, a journalist from Minneapolis, is also at the Bodega. He was planning a trip to the Galapagos Islands, and his limited Spanish isn't up to explaining why he needs to change to Bus 13 in Esperanza. Their meeting will change their lives forever. For there are ghosts in Esperanza--hungry ghosts who call themselves brujos, who can possess the bodies of living people, angry ghosts who can't let go of life and the sensual pleasures of the flesh. The people of Esperanza are in great danger, and the rest of the world will be, too, if the brujos cannot be defeated and sent from this mortal plane. Ian and Tess are the living keys who will permit humanity's guardian spirits to wage this war, and together they hold a power that neither can imagine alone. And in the middle of this war, Tess and Ian will find a love that can transcend time, and a cause that not even death will overcome"--Page 2 of cover.