1–What is the title of your latest release? CANDLELIGHT BRIDGE 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? In 1910, twelve-year-old Candelaria Rivera and her family flee across the Chihuahuan Desert to America to escape the rising storm of the Mexican Revolution. Meanwhile, twenty-year-old Yan Chi Wong flees the Chinese Revolution and a shattering loss, also bound for America, where he’s nicknamed Yankee. They meet in El Paso, Texas, where they struggle to make a home in a world that does not want them, until a terrible desire threatens to destroy their lives. Candlelight Bridge is not a romance but a tale of grudging partners struggling to survive the American Dream. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Candlelight Bridge takes place in southern China, northern Mexico, San Francisco, and primarily El Paso. Those locations were decided by family history. My Mexican Chinese grandma raised me, and my novel was inspired by the family stories she used to tell me: tales of secret immigrants and their mixed-race children, of loyalty and betrayal, and of trauma that gets passed like a torch from generation to generation. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? One thing I love about my protagonist is that…