Manuelita Sáenz: The Untamed Liberator

Quito, 1795 or 1797: a girl marked by the scandal of her birth is locked in a convent. But behind stone walls, among forbidden books and dreams of freedom, a revolutionary is born. Lima, 1822: a woman married to a respectable Englishman abandons everything, fortune, reputation, security, for a man and a cause: Simón Bolívar and the independence of the Americas. Bogotá, 1828: when conspirators come to kill the Liberator in the dead of night, only she stands in their way.
With her body. With her voice. With her defiance. Narrated through unexpected voices, the streets of Quito that watched her grow, the letters that guarded her secrets, the window through which Bolívar escaped, this novel restores to Manuelita the place that was stolen from her: the center of her own story. Not the story of a woman who loved a hero. The story of a heroine history tried to erase. For readers of Isabel Allende and sweeping Latin American historical fiction.