Hasta Manana

by Carolyn Wilkerson

Overview

When an Hispanic woman's son dies of a drug overdose provided by a Mexican drug lord, she becomes a federal agent and joins the border patrol on a personal mission to exact her revenge. Being a woman in a man's world of law enforcement is challenging enough, but confronting the powerful drug lord for the redemption of her son unleashes the one thing far worse than risking her own life – the Truth.

From the highly acclaimed novelist Carolyn Wilkerson comes Hasta Mañana, a fast-paced thriller that dives into the world of the American Southwest and illegal immigrants, a journey of one mother's quest for justice in a place where no one is who they seem and danger is everywhere. Wilkerson's authentic portrayal of the life of a border patrol agent is inspired by her son's experiences while serving as a federal agent at the US/Mexico border in Arizona.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013458161
Publisher:	Wilkerson Duncan Media
Publication date:	11/14/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	884 KB

About the Author

Carolyn Wilkerson was born in 1944 to Evelyn and Classic Wilkerson of Trenton, NC. Evelyn was a midwife. Classic was a sharecropper. Wilkerson attended Jones County Elementary School and graduated from Joseph C. Price High School in Salisbury, NC. In 1967, she graduated from Livingstone College, an historically black college, with a B.S. degree in Biology. During the years she was raising her son as a single parent, Wilkerson worked as a teacher and educational administrator; she wrote articles for trade journals and penned “The Family Forum”, a parenting column for a local newspaper in Mount Holly, NJ. She also attended graduate school and received the Doctorate degree in Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education from Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey.

Although she used her writing skills to author professional documents, Wilkerson notes that she was also a closet writer of fiction and poetry for the last forty-five or so years. “I am shy by nature,” she states. “Writing is a way of getting my thoughts out of my head, even when no one reads them but me. Writing helped me absorb the grief of losing my father at age twelve, my mother two weeks after my sixteenth birthday, and writing poetry helped me to deal with the anxiety of living in Washington DC during the late 1960’s riots. Writing was also an affordable therapy when my marriage fizzled after just three years.”

Wilkerson states, “I wrote some things in what seems like another lifetime, but most beginning writers don’t have a predictable income. With a young child and no child-support, that was not an option for me. Now my son is helping me fulfill a ‘dream deferred’. I encourage others who had to make practical choices years ago to revisit their childhood dreams. The passion for them might still be there under the cocoon-like layers of life that got in the way, just waiting for a breath of fresh perspective to unfurl their wings.

Wilkerson is currently completing the sequel to Hasta Mañana as well as continuing the development of other dramatic and suspenseful works.

Editorial Reviews

"Carolyn Wilkerson is a master storyteller. She has a knack for holding the attention of her readers and the courage to delve into uncharted territory. I found Hasta Mañana to be fast-paced and unpredictable. It’s absolutely riveting from start to finish.”

Patricia Fry, Author, Editorial Consultant and Executive Director of SPAWN (Small Publishers, Artists and Writers Network)

Patricia Fry