A preteen prodigy is offered a scholarship to a graduate research program when she learns that her guardian grandfather has fallen into debt with nefarious mobsters.

Ed Montenez is a Shadow Wolves Tracker and Border Patrol Agent hunting a lone Coyote who carries a mysterious package. Infused into the chase are a pair of rogue militiamen hell-bent on defending the border and a suspicious Federal Agent investigating border killings and corruption. No matter their motives, each one of them becomes indentured to the package once they uncover the nature of its contents.

Set in 2006, the band Stylo and the Murder Dogs score a shot to play on the local news. But as all of their dreams start to become reality, the band's egocentric singer-songwriter threatens to make them lose everything.

Seventeen year old, Sinclaire Lewis, relocates to the city with her recently widowed mother and younger brother in the hope of starting anew. When gangs and her own small town naivety interact it will plunge her into an abyss of drugs and crime she may not survive.