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Cuando Osric Mordaunt, miembro de la Orden Fyren de asesinos, resulta herido y comienza a perder su poder, se da cuenta de que necesita las habilidades de una sanadora en concreto. Y, como el destino tiene un oscuro sentido del humor, se trata de una integrante de la Orden Haelan, enemiga natural de los Fyren. Los Haelan, incapaces de conseguir la fi nanciación que les permita encontrar la vacuna para salvar a una oleada de niños afectados por una enfermedad que se creía erradicada, están desesperados... Tanto que, cuando Osric se cuela en su fortaleza para chantajear a Aurienne Fairhrim y lograr que esta le cure, ella se ve obligada a aceptar. Y conforme Osric y Aurienne buscan tanto el milagro que lo salve a él como la procedencia de la misteriosa epidemia, descubren que, cuanto más abanican las llamas del odio que los une, más sube la temperatura entre ellos.

The García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after the discovery of their father's role in an attempt to overthrow the brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always welcoming United States, their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try to find new lives: by straightening their hair and wearing American fashions, and by forgetting their Spanish. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. In Julia Alvarez's beloved first novel, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, the sisters tell their stories about being at home—and not at home—in America. Penguin Vitae—loosely translated as "Penguin of one's life"—is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.