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Year 1533. In the small town of Arnes, surrounded by the imposing beauty of the forests and mountains of Tortosa and Beseit, with the river Ebro at the background, Maria, a strong and brave young woman, gives birth to her first daughter, Luna.

Immensely happy, the grandmother Magdalena, an expert midwife and hard defender of the beneficial powers of nature, wants to welcome her granddaughter with an old prayer full of energy and knowledge. But she does it with fateful negligence: the old priest has listened to her words and is determined to do whatever is possible to destroy such heresy.

On growing up, Luna will be taught about the power of the nature elements by Maria and a mysterious text, the Book of Essences, a compendium of all magic and natural knowledge that has been passed from generation to generation throughout the centuries. Now, however, mother and daughter and all their antique wisdom are at risk. Fanaticism and incomprehension are all around the region and the accusations of witchcraft get close to the village.

As honourable heirs of their lineage, Luna and Maria are entitled to protect this secret book and give continuity to the chain, no matter if in their escape to Barcelona they take the risk to end burnt at the stake.

“El laberinto de la felicidad” is the first title of the collection edited by Álex Rovira. It is a short story, but very inspiring, touching and destined to all publics. It is very easy to read but not exempt of depth, entertainment, fun and love. The crisis of ethic values, the culture “fast”, the lack of space and time for dialogue, the non introspection, the strong rhythm in everyday life or stress take us many times to forget the most important: to live and look for a sense in it.

“El laberinto de la felicidad” shows us that get to find, accept and know ourselves are the previous and necessary steps to be happy. It is a parable that reminds us of “The Wizard of Oz”, “Alice in Wonderland” and “The Little Prince”. It tells us the trip of the protagonist through the labyrinth and all its stages until she reaches and gets to accept herself, and also decides to show herself to the world as she really is. The centre of you is the end of the journey. But first you have got to reach your centre – that is also the centre of the labyrinth – to be able to exit it after knowing all its stages and yourself.

Year 27 b.C. While the Roman army fights to set peace in the villages on the north of Iberia, Emperor Caesar Augustus settles in Tarraco, from where he exerts power and runs all the Empire.

The cosy city, cradle of sea and land of olive trees, soon has its calm daily rhythm mixed up. Among the ups and downs of constructions ordered by the emperor with the aim of turning it the most splendid city of Mediterranea, evil conspiracies take place, caused by the thirst of richness and power.

Only the old doctor Perthus will able to remember, after some years, the cruel facts that shook the city. The murder by treachery of governor Manni and the imprisonment of young Sul·la were just the beginning of a long series of lies, intrigues and injustices. Time, however, always reveals the truth in the end.

From Tarraco to Ilerda, passing by Baetulo and the mountain of Ausa, “El somni de Tarraco” goes vividly into the splendid past of Roman Catalonia. A vibrating novel that allows readers to know a fundamental period of the History.

Berta is about to turn seventeen years old. Her father, a writer of a certain success, died one year ago after a brutal aggression by a group of skinheads. Since then her mother has turn into a sort of ghost, a being without energy or personality, always filled of antidepressants and tranquilizers.

Berta fights to understand the world since a furious and radical individualism: she rebels against everyone who wants to make her a victim – teachers, psychologists, classmates – and, at the same time, as her only way of escaping and console herself, recovers her father’s work: to become a cold, distant and omniscient narrator of the instants that have marked her father’s life. She tries to discover the bonds of the familiar history that have remained undone.

The family’s past is converted by Berta narrator – who steals her father’s words, searching in the files hidden by her mother – in a series of mythological stories in which reality, memory and fiction get scrambled. These stories mix with the teen experiences of Berta, and are useful for her to explain herself and to make her search for a new identity.

In every family there are bonds that can not be undone.

Is there a formula able of changing the fate of the people?

There is an extremely powerful strength that can change our conception of universe and our own life. Until now nobody had got to find its explanation. Albert Einstein cleared it up at his moment with a mathematic equation, but, for any unknown reason, decided to keep it hidden. Javier, a radio scriptwriter, a looser and a little despicable guy, and Sarah, a mysterious and seductive specialist on the German genius, will be part of a search full of dangers and surprises that will take them to the places where the most famous Nobel Prize of all times lived, worked, suffered and loved. What they do not know is that their adventure in search of the last answer will be before all an illuminating trip to the depths of their own selves.

Alex Rovira and Frances Miralles disclose in this novel how to positively focus the most secret and powerful energy that we keep in our inner selves. The first inspirational thriller.