What if one day you woke up and were someone else? This is what happens to Carlos Dominguez, when he starts to remember things about his life when he was James Donato. Carlos/James remembers that he had followed his brother Phil to Mexico. Next thing he knows, he wakes up and is confronted by his son Julian... A son he doesn't remember. As Carlos/James starts to put the pieces together, he remembers his brother Phil was mixed up in some shady dealings. James had followed him to a ship, where he was thrown overboard. His older brother Thomas found him and after making sure he was safe, he told everyone he was dead. That is when he became Carlos.
Carlos had a great, yet difficult, new life: he met and married Raquel, adopted her son Julian, but Raquel, unfortunately, dies while giving birth to their son, Marcus. Now as his memories of James return, he must convince the boys that he won't leave them. Carlos/James decides back to his old home to begin his life over with his sons. He also must confront Aimee, the girl he left behind. There is also Natalya, Raquel's sister, and possibly the key to Carlos/James finding true peace and happiness.
Can Carlos/James really leave everything behind him? And will he figure out who he really wants to be?
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From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of
Everything We Keep comes the highly anticipated sequel.
Told from one manβs two perspectives, Everything We Left
Behind effortlessly blends suspense, mystery, and romance
in an exploration of loss, resilience, and the compelling
need to protect the ones we love at all cost.
Two months before his wedding, financial executive James
Donato chased his trade-laundering brother Phil to
Mexico, only to be lost at sea and presumed dead. Six and
a half years later, he emerges from a dissociative fugue
state to find heβs been living in Oaxaca as artist Carlos
Dominguez, widower and father of two sons, with his
sister-in-law Natalya Hayes, a retired professional
surfer, helping to keep his life afloat. But his fiancΓ©e,
Aimee Tierney, the love of his life, has moved on. Sheβs
married and has a child of her own.
Devastated, James and his sons return to California. But
Phil is scheduled for release from prison, and heβs
determined to find James, who witnessed something in
Mexico that could land Phil back in confinement. Under
mounting family pressure, James flees with his sons to
Kauai, seeking refuge with Natalya. As James begins to
unravel the mystery of his fractured identity, danger is
never far behind, and Natalya may be the only person he
can trust.
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