Description Grand Prize Winner in the 2017 Writer\'s Digest Book Awards.
Across three decades and two continents, Suanne Laqueur\'s fifth novel explores the unpredictability of sexual attraction, how family ties are forged, torn and mended, and how love\'s downfall can turn to exaltation..
All have been shaped by separate 9/11\'s, and their unfinished business from the past will change everything they know about love, loyalty and friendship.
When they meet again in their forties, they discover not only is their bond still strong, but their life experiences are strangely similar.
Alex, Valerie and Jav meet first in their twenties, with a sudden attraction each finds strange and compelling.
But in the wake of 9/11, Jav is named guardian for an orphaned nephew in Guelisten and must open his carefully-guarded heart to emotions long suppressed.
As one of Manhattan\'s top-paid male escorts, this professional lover has never lacked for company and is loyal only to himself.
September 11, 2001: Javier Landes watches from his apartment window as New York City falls to terrorism.
Though burdened by unresolved grief for his disappeared parents, he becomes fiercely loyal to the Larks, eventually marrying one of their daughters, Valerie.
Arriving alone in America, he\'s taken in by the Larks: a prominent family in the town of Guelisten.
September 11, 1973: Eleven-year-old Alejandro Penda watches from his apartment window as Santiago, Chile falls to a military coup, destroying his family and his childhood.
Description Grand Prize Winner in the 2017 Writer\'s Digest Book Awards
