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India, 1940. And Rosie is devastated by the sudden death of her beloved mother. The parties, smiles, and games disappear, and although Rosie is desperate to stay in her home, her father cannot look after her. All alone in the world, she is sent to Sri Lanka to live with her mother’s friend Silvia and her three sons. Time passes, and Rosie flourishes in her new home amongst the mango trees and canna lilies. And one day, under the heat of the Sri Lankan sun, she falls in love for the first time. But her happiness is short lived, for the brutal war is creeping closer.

El protagonista de esta novela autobiográfica abandona el Chile de la Junta Militar en 1974 para buscar refugio en Alemania Oriental. Allí se enamora de Margarita, la hija del comandante Cienfuegos, el poderoso embajador de Fidel Castro en Moscú. El matrimonio se celebra pocos meses después en la «isla de la Libertad», sin que el joven veinteañero de entonces intuyera que todas las ilusiones se derrumbarían una tras otra en la medida en que la Revolución cubana mostrara su otra cara.

Two divorces have taught Mariela Estevez that she's better suited to being a mistress than a wife. Whose heart needs all that "forever after" trouble? Still, her affair with her married lover, Hector, has become problematic - especially because he's also a tenant in her apartment building in the heart of Miami's Calle Ocho in Little Havana. But when Hector is found dead just steps from Mariela's back door, on the eve of her fortieth birthday, she's forced to examine her life - and come up with a plan to save it, fast.