A New York Times Bestselling AuthorAn Indie Next PickTalented Madrid college professor Blanca Perea seems to have it all. Then her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Evocative, lyrical, and humorous, The Heart Has Its Reasons is a story about the thrill of creating one's life anew.

The child of a single mother who works as a seamstress, Sira Quiroga has learned the ropes of the business and is engaged to a government clerk. Then two charismatic men burst into her life: a salesman and the father she never knew. Sira follows her lover to Morocco where, abandoned and penniless, she reinvents herself by creating beautiful clothes. But as World War II approaches, she returns to Madrid and enters the dangerous world of espionage.

Product Description: The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War II.Between Youth and Adulthood…At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress...read more