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Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side while he is away on a business trip.

Los habitantes del casco viejo de la localidad majorera de Corralejo, la mayoría de ellos ancianos, reciben una orden de desahucio que los apremia a abandonar las casas en las que han residido toda su vida. Y antes que ellos, sus antepasados. Lo que se oculta tras estos mensajes es una compleja y sórdida trama diseñada por unos especuladores con el silencio, cuando no la complicidad, de políticos y entidades financieras.

¿Cuántos desean ser los héroes de extraordinarias aventuras? Alelí es una muchacha sensible e insegura, siempre imaginó ser algo más. ¿Quién no desea sentirse vivo y volver a ser feliz? Cruz lo había perdido todo, ninguna esperanza sobrevivió. El destino les enseñará a no ignorarlo. Se encontraran rodeados de guerra, porque donde solo vive la oscuridad puede encontrarse la luz. Esa será solo una de sus batallas.

Martin and Maggie, a judge and an artist, have forged a life together for thirty-seven years. They have a son who is a successful lawyer and a grandson to dote on. Life is good, comfortable, familiar. But one day Martin leaves a family lunch and drives to a suburb miles away, to a particular house in a particular street, where an accident triggers a chain of events. No one knows why he was there - not even Martin himself - and as his mind starts unravelling, it is left to Maggie to discover what in Martin's past is troubling him, and where it is going to take them. While Maggie pieces...