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It is 1751 and the Succession war ended thirty years ago, however, there are a lot of survivors still living the consequences. Outside Barcelona’s walls, near to the harbor, a sandy area that belonged to the sea some time ago, and the shadow of the military strength still present, many families that lost their homes within the defeat, lead a dissolute life in shakes. A group of women are put together to work cleaning the city and the destiny will them to find a little poisoned treasure that they will have to keep in secret.

Miquel was already used to those quiet moments, lying on the floor behind the heathers or the reddish stones in that area of the Pyrenees. A country that had its own identity, but always aboused and used as a changing coin by everyone. Both of their muskets, loaded and ready, where pretty close, just in front, in a plain rock under the heat of the sun. Their pistols still smelled with the gunpowder within had been loaded just a moment ago. 

Year 1306: with his curved blade dagger, Belibasta kills. He flees to the south of the Pyrenees. From Occitane to Morella. From murderer to saint! A Jesus with his Magdalene. Some believers, the last Cathars hidden in Valencian, Aragonese and Catalan villas. A faithful and migrating sheep shepherd. An inquisitor that aims to become the Pope. A greedy and cunning spy. An emancipated and poisoner widow. From friendship to betrayal! From cohabitation to a forced marriage. Year 1321: from a sacrificial journey to a birth. And from a dagger to a carved stone…

This absorbing novel, rigorously based on facts and historical characters, reconstruct the daily life, the dreams and beliefs of a bunch of heretics at the dawn of the XIVth century. Treasures and flocks, Moorish and seers, rituals and inquisitors, Jews and Templers, quarry workers and whorehouses get interlaced in this real story. The spiritual and the carnal converge in a seven hundred years old plot in which love will have the last word…

You can see the booktrailer here

An approach to the early years of the monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat and the origins of the Scriptorium, with the chant of the land’s womb that will lead to the Escolania, through characters that shape an extraordinary fresco of a frontier’s land, which was spreading down south to fulfil its identity as a country.

At the beginning of the XIth century, Abbot Oliva takes a decision that disturbs the established order. A small group of monks settles in one of the hermitages aiming to lay the foundations for the monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat. Among them there is Dalmau Savarés, ex-soldier of the Count Berenguer Ramon I, who debates himself between two contradictory futures: the transforming spirituality of Basili, the hermit; or the worldly power of the Church.  

Coia Valls recreates with her characteristic meticulousness a fundamental episode of our history. This novel pays homage to the Montserrat Mountain and to the sea that occupied this magical territory at the dawn of times.

For centuries, the descendants of the Essene community have tried to keep hidden Jesus' last gift … until now.

 Cècil, an auditor of humanitarian projects in the third world, gets involved in a business related to antiquities traffic that will take him after the steps of Azul Benjelali, a former lover of his and an expert in ancient languages, who is about to discover the secret that has remained silent for thousands of years.

With Mars's help, a mysterious Colombian, Cècil starts a race against the clock that will led him from one clue to another following the Essenes, the Romans, the Templars, the Almogavers, the Bourbon troops and the Nazis. This adventure will thrill the reader right from the first page following the jigsaw spread in the plot that protagonists will have to solve before the secret falls into the wrong hands.

The eternal fight of men to control his time, the ambition and the generosity, the hope and the fear, two sides of human nature struggling against each other for two thousand years.

The readers of the genre will not be disappointed with this book and its mix of detective suspense, contemporary mysteries and well documented stories.