title: Hearts in Adversity: Trilogy of Love II
author: Moret, Alfonso
description: In this second installment of the Trilogy of Love series, Alfonso Moret continues his compelling look at the different faces of love in Hearts in Adversity, three short stories filled with intrigue, excitement, and romance.
   In "Infatuations," a widower becomes obsessed with a woman he encounters by chance, and he begins a romantic quest filled with flashbacks of his previous love, his beloved wife. But the memory of those heartbreaking years, of his wife's kidnapping and tragic death, return with a vengeance when the same kidnapper escapes from prison and becomes a leading suspect in a deja vous occurrence.
   A veteran detective investigates a sling of robberies with his new partner, a sexy female rookie detective, in "The Big Bust." As the couple gathers evidence, they also ignite a deadly trilogy of romance, jealousy, and passion that only grows worse when they discover Cuban mobsters and Russian gangsters are involved in the thefts.
   "The Enchantment" reveals how three recovering drug-addicts seek redemption from their immature, moral and emotional lives through witchcraft in Baja Mexico with three enticing witches and their mysterious healing secrets. On the road from Cabo San Lucas, the friends rely on the memory of their loves lost, present and in limbo to find answers and remedies to their healing process."