Under Colombian Skies

First love. Lost years. A country at war.

In the vast Colombian plains of the 1970s, Danny Mercer is a young American missionary kid who falls in love with María Elena, a Colombian farm girl whose world is shaped by hard work, family, and dreams she scarcely dares to imagine.

Their love is young, sincere, and full of promise. But when Danny leaves Colombia, they are separated by distance, time, and the uncertainty of two very different futures.

Danny eventually builds a new life in the United States, serving his country in the U.S. Army. María Elena remains behind as Colombia descends deeper into political violence. Struggling to survive, she makes choices that transform her from a hopeful farm girl into a powerful commander in the ranks of FARC, the guerrilla movement that will shape her destiny.

More than twenty years later, Danny returns to Colombia—and becomes a prisoner of the very organization María Elena commands.

When she recognizes the man she never truly forgot, she faces an impossible choice: protect the life she has built within FARC or risk everything to save the man she once loved.

As a dangerous pursuit closes around them, old loyalties fracture, buried memories return, and survival demands sacrifices neither could have imagined.

Can two people separated by war and the choices of a lifetime find their way back to each other? Or has Colombia changed them too much for love to survive?

Under Colombian Skies is a sweeping story of first love, courage, betrayal, and redemption—and of the enduring hope that even after years of loss, a different future may still be possible.