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Fourteen-year-old Gus González’s life changes forever when he is adopted by Nicholas Hernandez, a twenty-six-year-old Latino actor whose red-hot career is the buzz of Hollywood. This unexpected good fortune comes with a whole new set of problems: A year after the adoption, Gus finds himself the subject of outrageous supermarket tabloid stories, his best friend Lalo wants to audition for a role on Nick’s hit television crime drama Desert Blood, and he discovers that the girl he likes has a crush—on his new dad.
During an open casting call at the remote TV studio where Desert Blood is filmed, a boy is brutally attacked and another mysteriously vanishes. With the media swooping in to cover the story, it’s up to Gus and Lalo to find the missing boy and discover the attacker’s identity before Nick’s rising career is destroyed—and Gus’s new life along with it. As the clues pile up, it becomes clear that Nick is hiding a secret about Gus’s adoption, putting their newly formed father/son relationship at risk.
Set in California’s Mojave Desert, Desert Blood 10PM/9c features a cast of modern Hispanic characters working and living in the fast-paced industry of television entertainment. At its heart, it is the story of a boy learning to be a son and a young man learning to be a father, in spite of the pressures of growing fame and intense public scrutiny.
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