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Everything We Left Behind

Everything We Left Behind, July 2017
by Kerry Longsdale

Lake Union
354 pages
ISBN: 1477823972
EAN: 9781477823972
Kindle: B01N5FBTVO
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"A thoughtful and thrilling novel..."

Fresh Fiction Review

Everything We Left Behind
Kerry Longsdale

Reviewed by Sharon Salituro
Posted February 24, 2018

Action | Suspense

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? With

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From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Everything We Keep comes the highly anticipated sequel. Told from one man’s 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 he’s 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 fiancée, Aimee Tierney, the love of his life, has moved on. She’s 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 he’s 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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