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Eda ya no es la misma persona y Pramvera ya no es un misterio para ella. Ni siquiera lo es el temido emperador Dalton Basilius. Las batallas, la sangre y la fuerza del fénix la han cambiado. Sin embargo, entre las sombras, más allá de la oscuridad e incluso de la muerte, se esconden monstruos que aún no conoce y a quienes, por mucho que lo intente, no puede desafiar... Tras Imperio de fuego azul, con esta segunda entrega de la saga Fénix y Dragón vuelven la fantasía más poderosa y la magia más envolvente acompañadas de una pasión tan feroz que podría cambiar el rumbo del imperio... ¿Te atreves a arriesgar tu corazón?

Una gélida mañana de finales de diciembre, Gyeongha recibe un inesperado mensaje de su amiga Inseon: después de sufrir un accidente en su taller de carpintería en la isla de Jeju, ha sido trasladada de urgencia a un hospital de Seúl. Desde la cama, Inseon le ruega que tome el primer vuelo a la isla y se ocupe de su pequeña cotorra antes de que se le acaben el agua y la comida. Pero, desafortunadamente, cuando Gyeongha llega a Jeju se desata una terrible tormenta de nieve. ¿Llegará a tiempo para salvar al pájaro antes de que caiga la noche?, ¿sobrevivirá al viento helado que la envuelve a cada paso? Lo que ni siquiera sospecha es que algo más oscuro la espera en casa de su amiga.

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 . . .

It is November 25, 1960, and three sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of the dictatorship of General Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas–the Butterflies. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters–Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé–speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s storytelling, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage, love, and the human cost of political oppression. 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.

Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. His captors assume Reacher was the driver’s accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk.

Un amor nacido de las cenizas. Ser bombero forestal es lo único que he conocido. Es mi vida, mi pasión. También es un empleo peligroso, y después de ver cómo este trabajo destruyó el matrimonio de mis padres, decidí que las relaciones no eran para mí. Hasta que Teddy se muda a la casa de al lado. Es la hermana de mi mejor amigo. Para ella, tan solo soy Xander… aunque en secreto siempre he querido ser mucho más. Ahora Teddy acaba de enviudar, tiene dos hijos pequeños y uno más en camino. Su corazón está blindado tras la pérdida de su marido, y derribar sus defensas parece casi imposible, pero no pienso rendirme. Como jefe de brigada, mi equipo siempre ha sido lo primero. Sin embargo, cuando el corazón de Teddy también está en juego, todo cambia.