When We Left Cuba

Beatriz Perez was born into a sugar fortune, and the Cuban Revolution stripped her of nearly everything: her family's standing, her community and the country she called home. Now an exile in 1960s Florida, she is not content to grieve. When the CIA approaches her with an offer, she accepts a mission to get close to Fidel Castro's inner circle, driven by a hunger for revenge and a need to win back the life that was taken from her.

Espionage proves to be a dangerous world, and Beatriz must navigate it while the Cold War gathers force across the Florida Strait. She finds herself caught between the competing agendas of Cuban American politics, and between her duty and a forbidden affair with a powerful man who has ambitions of his own. Neither the politics nor the romance offers her safe ground.

As the tide of history keeps shifting, Beatriz faces a choice between the past she mourns and the future she might build. One wrong move could cost her the island she loves and the man who has won her heart. This historical novel follows Chanel Cleeton's Next Year in Havana and The Last Train to Key West, and was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick.