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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.

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.

Cardona’s Castle, 1478: a man about to be executed confesses to his son that they are descendants of Abraham Abufalia, a rabbi from the XIIIth century, and that their family has been guarding for generations a ring of incalculable worth. After his father’s execution, Mauricio goes to Florence in order to sell the ring.

This is the city of the arts; the Medici family has rescued the classic wisdom from oblivion to promote the renaissance of a new golden era. Mauricio will meet there extraordinary characters: Lorenzo de Medici, Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Leonardo da Vinci… But none of them will be as unforgettable as Lorena Ginori, a young woman forced to marry a man she despises. And either none of them will be as revengeful as Luca Albizzi, an ambitious noble who hates everything that the Medici represent. The Pontifical States, the king of Naples and some powerful Florentine families also aim their fall.

Dangers, conspiracies, plagues, invasions… Everything will seem to consume in the bonfire of the vanities when the city gets under the will of a visionary friar. However, as Florence needed to go back to the past to find the key of its future, the protagonists will descent until the hidden roots of their family history to know, at last, the truth about themselves through a thrilling journey in time.       

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Andreas – a humble tourist guide – is hired by an enigmatic woman called Solstice Bloomberg to go with her to Jerusalem. Once there, Solstice will reveal him the real cause of her trip to the holy city: recover Judas Iscariot’s old will, handwritten by the apostle himself, before it comes into light to the public and reveals fantastic facts. One of them tells that from the thirty coins he received to betray Jesus, only seven remained, and passed through generations along History until turn into powerful talismans to everyone who owns them.

Andreas has no choice but to collaborate with Solstice to find the coins, which were widely spread.

The only clues they will have will be each of the seven parts that compose Judas’ legacy, which explain where they are hidden and how to recover them. United States, France or Japan will be some of the sceneries they will have to visit to find them, but of course neither Andreas nor Solstice are the only ones who want the treasure… Someone else searches it and will not doubt to use all the necessary resources – including murder – to get it first, in this race against the clock.

A novel riddled with secrets, enigmas and mysteries, full of action and dangers that will show us a new and disturbing view about Judas.