Mambo Peligroso

<p>When Catalina Ortiz Midori walks into a shabby New York dance studio for her first mambo class she has no idea her life is about to change. A Japanese-Cuban immigrant who has lost touch with her Cuban roots Catalina is mesmerized by the one-eyed teacher El Tuerto a titan of the New York mambo scene and drawn to the dazzling technique of Wendy Cardoza a Bronx <em>mambera</em> who is one of its reigning queens. Catalina's apprenticeship with them and her growing obsession with the world of mambo -- the music the dancers the seductive dance itself -- will bring her back to her origins with a passion she didn't know she possessed and inadvertently draw her into a sinister Miami exile scheme through her disreputable cousin Guillermo.</p>