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Losing one’s mind means to walk the line between sanity and insanity. It is to become a stranger to oneself. To migrate, to change the country entails being a stranger in a land that has yet to be transformed into a new home. Límites y Fronteras is a novel that tries to inquire the nature of the stranger. Ismaïl, his protagonist, suffers a psychotic crisis which requires an admission in a psychiatry clinic. There he will find out that his craziness is a life’s chance to recognize himself and integrate all his belongings and dreams into one unique identity.

When old and grumpy Mencía and her daughter Lia travel from Menorca to Copenhagen to celebrate Christmas with Ines, Bea and little Gala, little can they imagine these four generations of women of the same family that ahead of them are forty eight unforgettable hours of unveiled secrets, healing truths, overcome tragedies, laughs and tears. Forty eight unforgettable hours livened up with Mencía’s untiring sense of humour, the coming to scene of Morris (the Chinese secret boyfriend of Bea, who will have to win Mencía’s most unlikely approval), and the announcement of some surprising news that will represent a new unexpected future for all of them.

El tiempo que nos une is the story of five brave women who, between comedy and drama, take the most of life and share it.

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On that afternoon of June, when Clea Ross and Otto Stephens arrived at the retirement home of Buenavista, nobody could presume that they were carrying more than the weight of their age on their backs. Neither Clea or Otto, nor even Ilona, the young keeper who was taking care of them by their express request, managed to conceive what would bring to their life the next three months.

Three months and three souls yearning for affection. A cello and two old adventurers, Clea and Otto, rebelling like two kids against boredom, aiming risk, life and truth. A mystery and a young woman, Ilona, who is scared and doubtful because does not know if she will be able to bear all the pain that her secret may produce. El alma del mundo is a novel about the second chances. It is a great love story and also a great story about love: love for music and for life.

Waiting for the result of a test, Pedro sits on a bench in the half-empty gallery on the third floor of the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona on a Sunday morning. It is September 11; a day that seems to be aimless. “Can I sit here?”, asks him a woman with a stylish brown hair and eyes, close to her fifties like him, and wearing the distinctive white coat patients wear.

This happenstance is the beginning of a day of talks and approaches where they both discover and nourish their mutual attraction based on subtle similarities and the need for warmth and companionship, and the fear of loneliness and death. While he has left his partner, Mary is married and has two children, but she feels lonely to face the test that will let her know the next day if the cancer that she already believed to have overcome has reappeared.

With a seductive narrative guided by this casual encounter, Moon River is a heartwarming story about dedication and love to avert death.

Brother Lucas, a young and handsome priest, arrives at the island of Tenerife in the middle of a series of mysterious murders and disappearances which seem to be ignored by the Franco authorities. Is 1940 and the Civil War has just finished, but the repression of the winners keeps Spain brimming with blood.

Lucas's destination is the school of San Isidro de la Villa in La Orotava, a particularly beautiful city historically linked with the Spanish Court where the old nobility enjoys a luxurious privileged life. The curiosity of the young friar, who refuses to accept the disappearances, bothers both the social and military elite of the city as well as his religious superiors. However, Luca’s attitude wins the affection of Rosa Pastrana, daughter of the count of Tres Cantos, who falls in love with his kindness, idealism and courage.

When a list numbering marked persons to be killed arrives to Lucas' hands, he and Rosa will have to decide if they risk their lives in a dangerous game of intrigues and betrayals to save 86 names.