Bella — C.M. Blackwood

Lucie Benoit is a beautiful, intelligent young woman â€" who's plagued by occasional paranoia, anxiety, and an awkward habit of forgetting where and who she is. She accompanies her brother Robert (who happens to be a drug dealer) to Mexico, where she falls in love with Clara Vicente, the sister of one of Robert's associates. As if Lucie's sheer strangeness isn't enough of an obstacle (an example being, when she professes for an entire evening that her name is Huckleberry Finn, and she's been rafting with Jim down the Mississippi River), Clara is already in a relationship with a young man whom all of her family expects her to marry. But even this problem is eclipsed, when Lucie's life is endangered by a deadly trap set by a prominent drug lord â€" and Clara must go against her own brother, in order to save her.