Sirena is the Epic account of a New Mexico Hispanic family swept up in a clash of empires, one waning and the other ascendant. A tragic tale of parallel nations, peoples, and lovers converging nowhere this side of infinity, marching in lockstep towards disaster.

The twins see it coming. Ron and Jake Valdez, prophets without honor, hamstrung by their own demons, powerless before the juggernaut. After Guantanamo, it was easy, first baby steps, later giant steps.

Homeland Security, Patriot Act, private armies, and concentration camps. In the name of freedom, they destroyed freedom, the bright shining star imploding, devouring itself.

E. G. Lopez was born in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. He is a Navy Veteran and graduate of the Milwaukee School of Engineering, BSEE, and the University of Pittsburgh, MBA, and a retired investigator for the National Labor Relations Board. In Sirena, he focuses his experience and a 300-year New Mexico oral heritage on an issue as old as humanity that threatens the integrity and the very viability of our great nation today.

They arrived in New Mexico, the first Spanish settlers, dragging their finery with them, confident of gold, confident that they would soon be the new grandees, hidalgos in a new, rich province, like Cortez and his conquistadores before them.  Instead, they found a harsh if beautiful and spectacular land where they managed to survive the first years only by appropriating what the native peoples had laboriously laid up.  A hundred years later, they were a different people, tough, resourceful, able to get by on little.  But they were peasants, a simple people, little villages, tiny farms, buffalo hunters, existing on the fringes of the Spanish Empire by dint of hard work and diminished expectations.

Fast forward two hundred years.  The Spanish Empire is on the wane, the American Empire ascendant.  Mexico, eight-million strong, its independence recently declared, is attacked by the United States, industrial, forty-million strong.  The result is foreordained.  One million square miles of territory are stripped away along with the peasantry, La Gente.  They are promised full citizenship.  They embrace it.  One young boy in particular, Tranquelino Valdez.

This is his story.  A story of hope and struggle in America.  Patria.  Ilusiones.  A story of betrayal and blood.  Sangre.  Perfidia.  A story of La Gente and the final solution to the Mexican problem.