In the Summer of Brian Hyland

What greater gift than freedom can one person give? That is the question that Lillian Levi must answer when she begins searching for her estranged father, Michael. Her unlikely search takes her first to Puerto Rico, then to Mexico, and ultimately to Cuba, where she catches up to him in Havana. In Havana Lillian also finds Gleynis Rodriguez, a seductive and beckoning figure in search of a family amulet referred to as "The Charm of the Heart". Gleynis may or may not be Michael's salvation, but she definitely has a lesson to teach Lillian. Gleynis, too, has a lesson to learn and a question she must face: "What price would a woman pay for her own son's freedom?" This novel, set in one of the most beautiful yet largely unknown cities of the world, draws the reader into...