Acclaimed author Kate Wheeler collected numerous awards for her short stories before making a splash with this atmospheric first novel. It tells the parallel tales of two women who, suffocating in oppressive marriages, travel to faraway lands and are drawn to the intensity of forbidden love. Maggie Goodwin and her husband travel deep into the heart of Peru to establish a health clinic. They enlist the help of political revolutionary Vicente Cruz after...

"Leonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest - until her capture in a bloody government raid, and a sham trial that sends her to prison...

Julie Winlock travels to the heart of the Peruvian rain forest, on a mission to save Manu River Research Station. The station's director, wildlife biologist Maxwell Stuart, doesn't see the need to make changes to the facility, but gradually the two fall for each other. A crisis will test Max's trust in Julie, and force her to make the most difficult decision of her life.