El perdón de los pecados

Como proyectada en mí corazón, un conjunto de escenas acuden a mi mente, cual recuerdos imborrables de mis vivencias contigo.

You made me very bad, Connor. And I am so glad. Ana and Connor have been having an affair for three years. In hotel rooms and coffee shops, swiftly deleted texts and briefly snatched weekends, they have built a world with none but the two of them in it. But then the unimaginable happens, and Ana finds herself alone, trapped inside her secret. How can we lose someone the world never knew was ours? How do we grieve for something no one else can ever find out? In her desperate bid for answers, Ana seeks out the shadowy figure who has always stood just beyond her reach - Connor's wife Rebecca....

En la oscura España de principios de los sesenta, la infancia de Ana de Sotomayor, hija de una familia de terratenientes extremeños, transcurre feliz hasta que la ruina de la familia empieza a planear sobre ellos. A las grandes fiestas y largos veraneos les seguirán la nevera vacía, la desaparición de cuadros, los llantos y los silencios. Con su particular manera de interpretar la realidad, Ana intenta comprender lo que sucede en casa y justificar el comportamiento excéntrico que muestra Luis, su padre, desde la trágica muerte de su único hermano José. ¿Qué es lo que le impulsa a...

A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this dark and enthralling Gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching... Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation are all she knows. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real hope of escape until the day she spots a peculiar listing in the newspaper seeking a bloodmaid. Though she knows little about the far north--where wealthy nobles live in luxury and drink the blood of those in their service--Marion applies to the position. In a matter of...