Lynn Sheft Bücher

In 2000 in South Florida, Maria Alvarez gets a call from her mother begging her to return to Bogotá, Colombia to reconcile with her father who is dying from chronic kidney disease. Two years earlier, Maria was kidnapped by the Colombian rebel group known by the acronym FARC who demanded ransom for her. After her rescue, she learned that her father told the rebel demanding a ransom that Maria is not his responsibility because she is married. Even though this was his way of dealing with the rebel, the crass statement wounded Maria and her family. She agonizes over her father's dying wish knowing that if she returned to Colombia she would forfeit her precious green card and risk being recaptured and killed. Leaving her husband and two young daughters behind, Maria finds a way to return incognito, only to find herself back in harm's way and fighting for her life.

As Lauren and Michael Casey bicycle through Miami’s Coconut Grove, Michael races off while his wife is preoccupied with changing gears. When she gets up to speed, Michael is out of sight. She anticipates he will surprise her by coming up from behind and tapping her on the shoulder. It doesn’t happen. After a fruitless search, she reports him missing. Later that evening, she is mortified when she learns he was murdered.After the tragedy is broadcast, she is contacted by a man who claims to be a dead ringer for her husband and believes the bullet had been intended for him. Lauren then teams up with him to solve her husband’s murder and finds her own life is in danger.