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Olivia is a young editor of self-help books. The success of her books has been modest to date and her boss keeps putting pressure on her to find a bestseller that will contribute to the imprint’s solvency. Only then she will be finally promoted, and she will displace Malena, the other editor who also competes to get the post.

But her life will change drastically when she gets to acquire “The Seven Suns of Happiness”, a book that has sold millions in the US. The author is her admired Jon Sunman, an attractive and American guru who suddenly announces his visit to Barcelona. As the young editor lets lady-killer Sunman seduce her, a new player comes to the love board: Javier, the translator of the book, and a staunch enemy of the author.

Trapped in a passion triangle of divine and human nature, our protagonist will dive into a big adventure that will lead her to self-determination and, very probably, to her love for life.

New York, 1929. Daniel, a young architect working in the construction of the Empire State, receives a message from his father. He has not heard anything from his father in the last eighteen years, and he will not arrive in time to see him alive. In the tiny apartment where they should meet, Daniel only finds his father’s body with two bullet holes in his back and a manuscript with a dedication to him. Thanks to this document, he will discover the story of his father, Joan Casas, a child who emigrated from Barcelona to New York in 1880 and fought for his place in the dangerous streets of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

In La ciutat vertical the life of an immigrant is linked to the expansion of New York in the turn of the twentieth century. A city that sees the birth of skyscrapers, subways, bridges over the East River … but also organized crime. The great metropolis that gives second and third chances, and where everyone can strive to make the American dream real.

Winner of Carlemany Award 2010.

A novel about love, risk and adventure, about leaving your homeland in search for your dreams. A colour kaleidoscope, where glasses not only allow light to get through and draw shapes, but also sensations, aromas and textures. A place where every feeling is present and can create a changing landscape.

“The Princess of Jade” personifies the spirituality and knowledge of ancient China, from contemplation and respect for the essential; but, in spite of her apparent fragility, she is a strong and determined being.

Yu is a sixteen-year-old girl that meets love for the first time. Grown up with ideals of millenary traditions, she suddenly feels her existence turn upside down. Generous, smooth and perfumed by the subtlety of unknown flowers, Yu is also enigmatic, like the jade stones she is so fond of.

A story of the contrast between what is given to us and the discovery of other realities, of other worlds, either unknown or that we had forgotten.

Israel Buendía, a star football player for the Real Triunfo FC, ​​is found murdered at El Grande Stadium. But this murder is just the latest in a series of scandals coming from a second division club that hides a few dark secrets.

Maria Moreno, a journalist who lands in the club as Communications Manager, is slowly discovering a world of shady deals, homophobia, match fixing, corruption… In the Real Triunfo FC everyone seems to have a motive to kill.

In her first novel, La muerte del 9, Paz Castelló creates an intrigue full of surprises. It is set in an environment she knows well — one the public has a particularly festive vision of.