Sign-In
Cart
Chronicles of Jorge
Paperback
Series: The Chronicles of Jorge, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 17 2025
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He took a gap year to find himself. He found the cartel instead.
Eighteen-year-old Jorge just wants out of Bowie, Texas. No more school. No more bells and pep rallies. One clean year to figure out who he's supposed to become before the rest of his life closes in.
Then a summer sales job hands him a mentor named Dom - smooth, funny, and dangerous in ways Jorge is too young to read. A road trip west. A first beer, a first joint, a first lie to his mother that comes far too easily. And a candlelit tarot reading that warns him a journey is coming, and darkness with it.
What follows is a descent: crooked cops and cold cash, a basement in Tabasco, a raid that leaves men dead on the floor, and a rooftop where a pistol is pressed to his forehead as a joke. But underneath the violence runs something stranger - a serpent in his dreams, a white horse blazing like the sun, a Compton preacher who tells him everyone is walking around with a hole shaped like the light. Jorge is being carried somewhere. The only question is toward what.
Raw, propulsive, and shot through with a current of the sacred, The Chronicles of Jorge is a coming-of-age story with the pulse of a thriller and the soul of a parable - the first book in a three-part journey across Mexico, Morocco, and the far edges of a young man's faith.
The road doesn't lead where he thinks. It never did.
Book One of the Chronicles of Jorge trilogy.
Mature content: violence, drug use, and strong language. Intended for adult readers
Also from
Basileia, Balthasar
7 Year Itch: The History, Symbolism, and Spiritual Lessons of Scabies in the Bible
Sotomayor, Mark
Basileia, Balthasar
Paperback
Wait, I Say: Waiting on the Lord in All Things, Hearing His Voice Above All, and What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do
Sotomayor, Edgar Mark
Basileia, Balthasar
Paperback
Wishful Thinking: What Positive Thought Really Does to the Heart, the Mind, and the Soul
Sotomayor, Edgar Mark
Basileia, Balthasar
Paperback
Also in
Young Adult Fiction
The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel: (A Modern Visual Adaptation of Homer's Epic Tale of Greek Mythology for Young Adults)
Hinds, Gareth
Paperback
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)
Alexie, Sherman
Paperback
Piper at the Gates of Dusk: (A Young Adult Dystopian Adventure of Survival, Identity, and a Divided Future World)
Ness, Patrick
Hardcover
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
Smith, Cynthia Leitich
Hart, Kate
Gansworth, Eric
Hardcover
Once Upon a Broken Heart Collector's Edition: [Limited Stenciled Edge Edition]
Garber, Stephanie
Hardcover