"Best Books of 2016"—Publishers Weekly

2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Winner (Gold): Romance

2016 Foreword INDIES Finalist:LGBT Fiction, Multi-Cultural Fiction

“The sweat and blood in the ring don’t detract from the sweetness on display here; the setting may be outside the mainstream, but it’s an old-fashioned love story at heart.”—Kirkus Reviews

Details: Package includes PDF, EPUB, and Kindle files.

Pages: 256

Word Count: 73,000

Release Date: November 3, 2016

ISBN: 978-1-941530-98-6

Summary

Each week, Gabriel Romero’s drive to Sunday mass takes him past “El Ángel,” the golden statue at the heart of Mexico City that haunts his memories and inspires his future. Spurred by the memory of his parents, Gabriel is drawn to the secretive world of lucha libre, where wrestling, performance art and big business collide.

Under the conflicting mentorships of one of lucha libre’s famed gay exótico wrestlers and an ambitious young luchador whose star is on the rise, Gabriel must choose between traditions which ground him but may limit his future, and the lure of sex and success that may compromise his independence. Surrounded by a makeshift family of wrestlers, Gabriel charts a course to balance ambition, sexuality and faith to find the future that may have been destined for him since childhood.

From the award-winning author of Sotto Voce, Luchador is a story about finding your identity from behind a mask.

About the Author

Erin Finnegan is a former journalist and winemaker who lives in the foothills outside Los Angeles. A lifelong sports fan and occasional sports writer, she has had to dive out of the way of flying luchadores at matches in both the U.S. and Mexico. Her first novel, Sotto Voce, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and a Foreword Reviews Indiefab Silver Book of the Year Award. Get to know Erin at Erin-Finnegan.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/ErinGoFinnegan and on Twitter at @eringofinnegan.