Linda Barnes
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Heart of the World is Linda Barnes most intense, most personal, and most suspenseful Carlotta Carlyle novel yet. In it, Carlotta is awakened by a late
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-night phone call telling her that Paolina is missing. Fourteen-year-old Paolina was paired up with Carlotta by a mentoring program in Boston years ago, and she knows that Carlotta thinks of her more like a daughter. In fact, as Carlotta combs the streets of Boston, then Miami, and then Bogot looking for Paolina, feeling more and more desperate, she finds herself thinking of another child she a baby she bore at fifteen and gave up for adoption. Tense, emotional, frightening, Heart of the World follows Carlotta as she herself is kidnapped by Paolinas notorious father, drug lord Carlos Roldan, and as they team up in an unlikely bid for Paolinas freedom. Its a breathless, shocking read, the pinnacle of a series and an authors Barnes best work ever
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St. Martin's Press