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Coincidiendo con el inicio de la ofensiva alemana contra Rusia, Curzio Malaparte empezó a escribir Kaputt, obra con la que pretendía recoger el testimonio de su experiencia como corresponsal de guerra durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Malaparte recorre la Europa ocupada por los nazis como si fuera un espía: presencia la triste impotencia del príncipe Eugenio de Suecia, se ve obligado a sobrellevar la arrogancia de los líderes nazis delegados en Varsovia y es testigo de la crudeza de los parajes de la fría Carelia o de la noble ciudad de Lasi, desolados por la barbarie y el hambre que convirtieron Europa en un montón de chatarra. Con Kaputt —palabra germánica que evoca lo roto, lo hecho añicos, y que deviene un fiel calificativo de lo que quedó de un continente devastado por un lustro de destrucción— Malaparte teje una sobrecogedora obra literaria sobre la realidad, a un tiempo salvaje y grotesca, de la guerra en el frente.

The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams…. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion. With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like. But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.

Sending Damon to prison was the worst thing Winter could’ve done. It didn’t matter that he did the crime or that she wished he was dead. Winter thought he’d cool off in jail and be anything but the horror he was, or that at the very least she’d have time to disappear before he got out. But she was wrong. Three years came and went too fast, and prison only gave him time to plan. And while Winter anticipated his vengeance, she didn’t expect this. He doesn’t want to make her hurt. He wants to make everything hurt. Damon knows he needs to get rid of Winter’s father, giving her, her sister, and her mother nowhere to run. The Ashby women are desperate for a knight in shining armor. But that’s not what’s coming. It’s time Damon took control of his future. It’s time he showed them all that he will never stop being the nightmare they think he is. Damon won’t have to break into her home to do it. As the new man of the house, he has all the keys.