LETRAS

On a small island in a remote corner of northwest Scotland lies Maundrell castle, owned by its wealthy namesake family for centuries—until now. Edwina Nunn is shocked to learn a relative she never heard of has bequeathed the castle and its land to her. What awaits Edie and her teenage daughter, Neve, is even more startling, for the castle is home to a multitude of ghosts. Yet there’s a strange beauty in the austere architecture and the eerie, bloody waters of Loch na Scáthanna, the Lake of Shadows. Beguiled by a frightened ghost who gazes longingly out of the castle’s windows, Edie and Neve are drawn to the legends shrouding the island and the mystery of the Maundrell Red—a priceless diamond that disappeared decades before. Is the gem really cursed, and the cause of the family tragedies that have all occurred on Samhain—Scottish Halloween? As Samhain approaches once more, Edie and Neve race to peel back the dark secrets entwining the living and the dead—a twisted story of bitter cruelty and hidden love—or they will become another Maundrell tragedy trapped in the lonely hours . . .

Las fantasías y los anhelos se convierten en su nueva rutina, pero Lily teme que Loren Hale, mientras se recupera de su alcoholismo, acabe viéndola como lo que es: un monstruo. Al fin y al cabo, cuanto más tiempo le es fiel, más control ejerce su adicción sobre su vida. La relación disfuncional entre Lo y Lily está en la cuerda floja y, además, ahora que están a kilómetros de distancia, se verán obligados a encontrar alguna forma de reconectar. No poder tocarse se convierte en una de las pruebas más difíciles a las que deberán enfrentarse en su camino hacia la recuperación. Hay amores que no pasan de la superficie, pero hay otros mucho más profundos que la piel. Lily y Lo tienen tres meses para descubrir qué clase de amor es el suyo.

La narradora de esta novela estudia para consolidar su futuro profesional. Ha conseguido un puesto de interina en una oficina administrativa, y afrontar una oposición parece ser el paso lógico en su carrera. Sin embargo, otro tipo de oposición, la interna, basada en su observación del día a día funcionarial, hace que no lo tenga nada claro. El edificio donde ha sido destinada, tan gigantesco como hermético, es un lugar de jerarquías incomprensibles, que la expulsa al mismo tiempo que la absorbe. Como nadie le explica sus funciones, se ve forzada a improvisar, disimular por vergüenza y registrar su malestar con dibujos y poemas tan desplazados de la realidad como el trabajo mismo. Los funcionarios que la rodean, cada uno con sus particularidades y conflictos, han desarrollado los tics y las manías propios de las rutinas laborales y la obediencia acrítica.

One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river.

In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. To pursue her passion for writing, she is willing to defy societal norms. At the age of seventeen, she begins to publish pulp fiction using a man’s pen name. When these fictional worlds can no longer satisfy her sense of adventure, she turns to journalism, convincing an editor at The Daily Examiner to hire her. There she is paired with another talented reporter, Eric Whelan. As she proves herself, her restlessness returns, until an opportunity arises to cover a brewing civil war in Chile. She seizes it, as does Eric, and while there, she meets her estranged father and delves into the violent confrontation in the country where her roots lie. As she and Eric discover love, the war escalates and Emilia finds herself in extreme danger, fearing for her life and questioning her identity and her destiny.

Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe—who was brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past before she can face the unbelievable truth about her husband—and herself.