{"product_id":"poison-heartbeats-paperback","title":"Poison Heartbeats - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKerstin Ingegerd Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eTemple Emmet Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerrorism, born in Africa, comes to America, and Homeland Security must protect its citizens. Poison Heartbeats is a love story, a war-torn romance, written like a thriller. The book follows the life of a girl born in Afghanistan during the Russian occupation, before the fall of the Berlin Wall. She becomes a U.S. citizen because a CIA operative adopts her and brings her to America, renaming her Holly Smolkes. A beautiful but seriously flawed woman, she falls in love with the director of Homeland Security's \"Poison Well\" unit, a group designed to stop terrorists who want to poison the water supply of the United States. Holly Smolkes has a twin brother, left behind in Afghanistan when she was eight years old. He has become a leader of the terrorists.\"Poison Heartbeats\" is the second, and most-awarded novel in the Heartbeat Series of mystery thrillers by Temple Emmet Williams. The first was \"Wrinkled Heartbeats,\" chosen as one of the best first novels (under 80,000 words) at the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTemple is a journalist nominated twice for a Pulitzer, an author, a publisher, and a former editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Reader's Digest\u003c\/i\u003e. He grew up in rural Ohio, was educated at Yale University, and spent many years overseas. He is an ex-marine and an ex-NYC cop. He writes both fiction and non-fiction with with humor and the quick, sharp punch of journalistic truth. He and his editor live in Boca Raton, Florida. They have been married 44 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 322\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 22, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48381425516793,"sku":"9780990843351","price":22.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/A0Nm-IyqIh9780990843351.webp?v=1778349948","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/poison-heartbeats-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}