From the heart of Mexico’s Copper Canyon to the family homes of El Paso, Zeferina’s Treasure, Unforeseen Dreams is a story of memory and survival. Inspired by the true accounts of his grandmother Zeferina, Aguilar brings to life the turbulence of the Mexican Revolution, the strength of family bonds, and the unbreakable hope carried forward through generations.
Victor M. Aguilar is a native of El Paso, Texas, where he earned a master’s degree in history with a minor in anthropology from the University of Texas at El Paso. A retired public-school teacher and professional tennis instructor, he still enjoys competing in senior tennis tournaments at the national level. Family has always been at the heart of Victor’s life. Married to his wife Sabrina for more than forty-one years, he is the proud father of two daughters, Katherine Victoria and Anna Natalia, and a joyful grandfather to Jaxinto Nicolas and Crimson Sebastian.
The inspiration for his novel, Zeferina’s Treasure: Unfulfilled Dreams, began in childhood when his grandmother shared vivid stories of survival and hidden treasures during the Mexican Revolution. After decades of carrying those memories, and with the encouragement of his family, Victor finally brought them to life in a moving labor of love.
Hello, I am Victor M. Aguilar, the author of Zeferina’s Treasure: Unfulfilled Dreams.
I am a native of EL Paso, Texas where I grew up listening as my grandmother whispered stories of buried treasures that had been left behind in her native village of Urique, Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. For the most part, I grew up believing these were bedtime tales, but as I got older, I realized her stories were my family’s history. For decades, her stories haunted me waiting to be told, they lived on in the back of my mind for sixty-seven years, and now, with the help of my family and wife, her stories have finally found their way onto the printed page.
This book is more than historical/fiction, it’s my family’s legacy, heritage, and a reminder that the past lives within all of us. Our past shapes us into who we are and how we carry forward. Apart from writing, I am a retired history teacher and a professional tennis instructor, and I still compete in multiple senior tournaments across the country.
Zeferina’s Treasure: Unfulfilled Dreams is my special way of keeping alive the voices of those that have lived before me, that have shaped me. I hope once you read the book, you will feel the same.
Thank you for letting allowing my to share my journey with you.
Like Zeferina’s buried treasures, your inner strength can emerge in moments of crisis.
Journey of Zeferina teaches that hope can bloom even after the deepest losses.
Through Zeferina’s stories, discover how family history shapes identity and resilience.
Zeferina’s survival through the Mexican Revolution shows how adversity builds unshakeable strength.
Zeferina’s legacy of faith continues to inspire future generations to overcome.
Zeferina’s story highlights how turning fear into faith can empower us to move forward.
Zeferina’s story is that of survival through the darkest times of history. From the peaceful days in Copper Canyon to the harrowing escape from Pancho Villa’s forces, this story is one of courage and resilience. In Zeferina’s Treasure: Unfulfilled Dreams, the treasures hidden in the earth are more than gold. They are the lessons, love, and memories that sustain us across generations.
In this book, Victor M. Aguilar takes us on a journey from the Copper Canyon to the streets of El Paso, showing us how the experiences of one family shape the future of those who come after. The book explores how resilience and courage can transform hardship into a lasting legacy.
This is an epic story over that traces several generations of a Spanish/Aztec/ Mexican family from Spain, through early settlement days in Mexico until the treacherous times of Poncho Villa. The author is great story teller with a full grasp of Mexican history. Written in English, it's his ancestral family he is describing. He shows the blending and growth of Aztec and Spanish culture though adventures, heartbreaks, perilous encounters, and poignant love stories. Reminds me of a less phony, more believable version of Yellow Stone and its prequels. The Fontes family in Zeferina's Treasure ends up in El Paso in the early 1900's. I can't wait for the sequel.
A story of resilience, family, and the strength of heritage. Victor M. Aguilar writes a story that reminds us of the power of memory and the treasures that live in the heart.
Events in the characters' lives are fascinating and heroic - and historic, but the characters are not fully realized - even the main characters are romanticized, and 1/3 of the book needs editing out. It is too long, with too many very draggy "day chapters" that start with "delicious" breakfasts, and end with couples falling asleep. The structure IS built on various ancestral and "current" people relating their stories, but...the narrative needs more showing, less telling. And my Kindle version, at Lot 12,842- a proclaimed "100%" - ended my reading with the words, "Let me continue the story.”
