El nacimiento de las élites

In a house he is restoring, builder Don Lark meets a woman squatter who turns out to be a ghost. But Sylvie Delaney does not realize she is a ghost, thinking she is alive. Lark learns she was murdered and goes searching for the killer. As he sinks his teeth into his new project, Lark's new neighborhood starts to work its charms on him. He strikes up a romance with the real estate agent who sold him the house. His neighbors, two charming, chatty old ladies, ply him endlessly with delicious Southern cooking. Even Sylvie, the squatter Lark was once desperate to evict from the old house, is now...

Isabel Cendal regenta un orfanato en La Coruña; tras la muerte de su hijo y su marido a causa de la viruela, vive entregada al cuidado de los niños. Entre ellos, tiene especial cariño a Benito, un huérfano que presenció la muerte de su madre. Un día, Isab

La extracción de un caballo en la mina, acontecimiento no muy frecuente, había agrupado alrededor del pique a los obreros que volcaban las carretillas en la cancha y a los encargados de retornar las vacías y colocarlas en las jaulas Todos eran viejos, inútiles para los trabajos del interior de la mina, y aquel caballo que después de diez años de arrastrar allá abajo los trenes de mineral era devuelto a la claridad del sol, inspirábales la honda simpatía que se experimenta por un viejo y leal amigo con el que han compartido las fatigas de una penosa jornada. A muchos les traía...

In this sequel to Contra el viento del norte, nearly a year has passed since Emmi and Leo fell madly in love through email when Leo returns to Boston to find news of her. Both recognize their feelings for each other haven’t changed and consider meeting in person for the first time. But Leo has just started a new relationship and Emmi is still married. Leo and Emmi show us all that after the sixth wave breaks against the shore, a seventh wave always comes, this one, full of surprises.