The Determined Heart reveals the life of Mary Shelley in a story of love and obsession, betrayal and redemption.

The daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley had an unconventional childhood populated with the most talented and eccentric personalities of the time.
After losing her mother at an early age, she finds herself in constant conflict with a resentful stepmother and a jealous stepsister.

When she meets the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she falls deeply in love, and they elope with disastrous consequences. Soon she finds herself destitute and embroiled in a torturous love triangle as Percy takes Mary’s stepsister as a lover.
Over the next several years, Mary struggles to write while she and Percy face ostracism, constant debt, and the heartbreaking deaths of three children.

Ultimately, she achieves great acclaim for Frankenstein, but at what cost?

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A young reporter in 1923, Alma Reed accompanies archaeologists to the ruins of Chichen Itza, where a fortune in Mayan artifacts has been stolen from a sacrificial well. It's believed a curse was unleashed by the theft—yet the career-making story it offers the ambitious journalist seems a godsend.

It also leads her to a passionate love affair. But when fate darkens their lives and damns them as doomed political pawns, Alma can't help but wonder if the curse is not, in fact, very real.

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Excerpt from the prologue:
¨First, let it be said that I did not attend his crucifixion. If you're seeking an insight into that tragic affair, you won't hear it from me¨.

¨Much has been made in recent years of my attempt to stop it, my plea to Pilate telling him of my dream....¨

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