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  • Heartbroken

  • A Novel
  • By: Lisa Unger
  • Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
  • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (64 ratings)

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Heartbroken

By: Lisa Unger
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
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Publisher's summary

Long after anyone expected Kate to do anything with her life, she did. Using the journals left behind by her aunt and grandmother, she wrote a novel based on a very real, generation-old love story that ended in tragedy. On the other side of town, Emily is about to set fire to her life. She's in a dead-end job and is involved with the wrong man; she can feel herself being drawn into darkness, with horrific consequences. With nowhere to go, she finds herself on the run.

Without knowing each other, and with lives that couldn't be more different, Kate and Emily head to the same point on the map: Heart Island, an idyllic place in the middle of a lake in the Adirondacks, owned for generations by Birdie Burke's family. The harsh and unyielding Birdie is at one with this island, which has a terrifying history all its own. She, too, has consequences to face.

Heartbroken is a tense, mesmerizing novel about the limits of dysfunctional families, of an island haunted by dark memories and restless ghosts, and of the all-too-real demons we must battle.

©2012 Lisa Unger (P)2012 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

"Unger delivers compelling, fully drawn characters while at the same time putting the thrill in thriller. A first-class page-turner." ( Booklist)
"[A] tense psychological thriller.... Unger skillfully builds the fissures of each of [her characters'] lives as she illustrates the power of the heart and the corrosive nature of lies." ( Publishers Weekly)
"Will captivate fans of mystery and psychological suspense. This is one of Unger's best novels yet." ( Library Journal)