Cartagena

Valentina Reyes was raised to be untouchable - old money, perfect posture, a smile that never reaches her eyes in the right rooms. She runs her family's cultural foundation in Cartagena and she is very good at not asking questions about where the money comes from.
Mateo Vargas photographs the city her family built their name on. The inequality. The silence. The people who don't make it into the foundation's press photos. He is working on a story that will change everything. He tells himself she's just part of the story.
They keep crossing paths. The city keeps putting them in the same frame.
She knows more than she admits. He wants more than the story. And somewhere between the walled city at dawn and the barrios her family pretends don't exist, they stop being careful - which is the most dangerous thing either of them has ever done.
Cartagena is a forbidden romance set against the gorgeous, violent heart of Colombia's most beautiful city. It is about class and complicity, what we choose not to see, and whether love can survive being the thing that tears everything open.

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