First published 2022
Isabel Perez has built walls around her heart since fleeing Cuba after the revolution. When her sister Beatriz vanishes in Barcelona in 1964, Isabel travels to Spain to find her. She partners with an unexpected ally and enters Beatriz's world of espionage. But the search reveals a family secret that changes everything Isabel thought she knew about her past. In 1936, Isabel's mother Alicia arrived in Barcelona from Cuba with young Isabel, her marriage crumbling as Spain teetered on the edge of civil war. Cubans joined the International Brigades to fight fascism, and Alicia found herself face to face with a man from her past who still held pieces of her heart. Two women, separated by decades, must choose between family duty and personal desire as their stories converge in a city marked by political upheaval.
Genres: romance, historical-fiction, 20th-century, suspense, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, family-drama, found-family
Setting: Barcelona, Cuba
Period: 1936, 1964
306 pages · Hardcover · Berkley