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The Red Panama Dreams

The Red Panama Dreams

Langston, Mira

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

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ISBN13: 9798279183500
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 20 2025
Pages: 366
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

When photojournalist Maya Torres returns to Portland for her father's funeral, she expects grief-not the locked wooden box hidden in his study. Inside, she discovers photographs of a woman in a red dress standing before the Panama Canal, letters in Spanish, and a confession that shatters everything she thought she knew about her family.

The woman was Isabela Ramos, a brilliant artist and fierce activist fighting for Panamanian sovereignty in 1973. She was also Maya's father's first love-and the mother of a daughter he supported in secret for thirty-two years.

Driven by questions her father can no longer answer, Maya travels to Panama City and finds Cristina Ramos, a respected historian who has spent her career studying the exact period when her mother died in a suspicious accident. As the two women piece together the past, they uncover a darker truth: Isabela's death was no accident, but a calculated assassination tied to CIA operations in the Canal Zone.

Spanning five decades and two continents, The Red Panama Dreams weaves together two timelines-1973 Panama, where a desperate love affair collides with political violence, and the present day, where two sisters connected by secrets must decide what to do with a truth that powerful institutions want buried.

This is a story about the weight of inheritance, the cost of resistance, and the courage it takes to stop running from the past. About a woman who died fighting for her country's freedom, a man who spent fifty years trying to atone for his failures, and two daughters who must choose between revenge and understanding.

Some stories are worth more than headlines. Some truths matter more than justice. And sometimes, the most radical act is simply refusing to forget.

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