Enrique Tavish owes Rosa Martinez a life.
Months after fifteen-year-old Rosa helped save his abducted daughter, Enrique learns that Rosa has been sold into sexual slavery by her brother. Driven by gratitude, guilt, and an attraction he won’t admit, the high school principal slips secretly away to search the brothels of Nogales, unsure whether he can bring Rosa home, or even find her at all.
Rosa refuses to remain a victim, but she has no intention of becoming Enrique’s grateful rescue. Fierce and calculating, she pulls him deeper into a violent struggle involving traffickers, gang loyalties, frightened children, and enemies who do not consider escape the end of an account.
As Enrique risks his marriage, career, and life to protect her, he must confront the possibility that his heroism and his hunger come from the same dangerous place. Because the more Rosa claims the right to decide who she will become, the harder it is for him to deny what others can already see.
She’s a Lot Like You is a relentless borderland crime novel about moral debt, desire, and the terrible difference between saving someone and believing you have the right to decide what their freedom should look like.
