Heart of Lies: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Elevated within a tribe of street urchins, Maddie Grande was trained to be always a thief and beggar in the streets of New Orleans. But Maddie doesn’t know her real name or where she came from.Raised by Dexter Grande, Maddie and her twin “brothers” possess recently left New Orleans and transferred to the bayou. The twins are rarely there, but Maddie provides come to like the swamp. She has learned to seafood and capture and sell pelts at the local mercantile.Maddie longs to change her existence but understands that her brothers won’t about Center of Lays: A Book give up their lawless methods. When they kidnap the girl of a wealthy carpetbagger, the twins drive Maddie to cover up the precocious eight-year-old while they return to New Orleans to wait for notice of a reward. Pinkerton agent Tom Abbott is assigned to the kidnapping case in which Maddie is becoming an accomplice. Within a trip that takes these to Baton Rouge, a mutual attraction becomes obvious, but Tom and Maddie cannot trust one another. Will Maddie ever discover who she actually is? Will her real family ever find her? Will Maddie and Tom pay attention to their hearts? Or will they select honor over like?