Calling Mr. Lonely Hearts: A Novel

Hardcover, 336 pages
Ballantine Books
Price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0-345-49769-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-49769-7

Audio Brilliance Audio CD (Unabridged)
Price $29.99
ISBN-10: 142333440X
ISBN-13: 978-1423334408

Synopsis:

A former priest enlists the aid of demons to take revenge on the three women who ruined his life and career.

He gives a woman everything she could want, answers her deepest unspoken needs, her hidden thoughts, her darkest desires. But Varick isn't just too good to be true, he is hell-sent.

Roxanne, Del, and Alice were girls together at Our Lady of the Hills School, where they met and came to adore their teacher, Father Romero, a Cuban refugee. For one of the girls, Father Romero was far more than a crush, and as a result he is driven away from his faith and his home and into an empty spiritual darkness that makes him easy prey for true evil.

Years later, Romero takes his merciless revenge—revenge that is terrifying, sexually-charged and surreal as a fever dream. No one in the women's lives is safe. Not even an unborn child.


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