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Coordinates of the Heart: A Novel of Sisters, Maps, and the Man Who Saved Them

Coordinates of the Heart: A Novel of Sisters, Maps, and the Man Who Saved Them

Paperback

RomanceGeneral Fiction

ISBN13: 9798276286143
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 26 2025
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On a frozen highway in Kansas, a man with soldier steadiness and a pocketknife performs an emergency C-section in the dark, saving a newborn girl. He leaves before the sirens arrive. Fifteen years later, sisters Aloisia and Valentina-curator and comet, planner and storm-follow a trail of fragments: a diner memory of Hein, a scar at the brow, a note about a clinic near the Vaal River, a coin stamped with a springbok, letters left in a metal box. Their search becomes a voyage-Zürich boardrooms and dig sites, Four Corners dust and Patagonian mate, the Altai's cold grammar, and finally a pepper farm along the Mekong where development pressures turn love into witness and community into strategy. As they help build a witness circle, mend fences, and learn to read clouds and engines, Aloisia confronts the way duty has worn the shape of love; Valentina earns speed and courage without losing her fire. And the man they find-Hein Theron-shows them that fixing machines and saving lives share the same quiet ethics: patience, steadiness, truth. Coordinates of the Heart is a sweeping, intimate novel about sisters, belonging, and the maps we carry inside us. It asks what gratitude becomes when it grows up-and answers with a porch at dawn, a binder of evidence, and a hand held after night fires.

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