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City of Promises
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ISBN10: 1477544364
ISBN13: 9781477544365
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 22 2013
Pages: 370
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781477544365
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 22 2013
Pages: 370
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A fantastic setting for this memorable sweep through time, culture, and the quest for what love truly means.Mercedes is a well-connected showgirl star who knows all about the perils of glamour and fame. A gorgeous Rumba dancer like her is lust after by every privileged politico in the country.
She is adept at fending them off.
Arturo is a handsome young industrialist so consumed by his work he has no idea who she is when their lives cross in the lounge car of the overnight express from Mexico City to Veracruz one steamy May night in 1943.
Arturo Fuentes is smitten.
A man moving up meets all kind of powerful people who can boost business prospects or change the course of a life. Can Arturo seize the opportunity an exciting, seductive city has on offer without falling prey to the grip of corruption and crime?
Colonel Carlos Serrano, the politically shrewd and ruthless Interior Secretary already has Arturo in his sights. Serrano is accustomed to getting what he is after and Arturo Fuentes owns something the Colonel wants.
Will any of them get what they want?
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