LETRAS

ALICE SCOTT is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning human thundercloud. And they're both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: to write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the twentieth century. When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she'll choose the person.who'll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice's head in the game. One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over. Two: she's ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication. | Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.

Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe—who was brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past before she can face the unbelievable truth about her husband—and herself.

In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. To pursue her passion for writing, she is willing to defy societal norms. At the age of seventeen, she begins to publish pulp fiction using a man’s pen name. When these fictional worlds can no longer satisfy her sense of adventure, she turns to journalism, convincing an editor at The Daily Examiner to hire her. There she is paired with another talented reporter, Eric Whelan. As she proves herself, her restlessness returns, until an opportunity arises to cover a brewing civil war in Chile. She seizes it, as does Eric, and while there, she meets her estranged father and delves into the violent confrontation in the country where her roots lie. As she and Eric discover love, the war escalates and Emilia finds herself in extreme danger, fearing for her life and questioning her identity and her destiny.

A servant girl escapes from a settlement. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her.

Prohibida en distintos países tras su publicación, Agosto es un mes diabólico es el hirviente relato de una mujer que se redescubrirá durante un viaje a la Riviera Francesa. Ellen vive en una ciudad que le disgusta, un lugar que niega su pasado y no ofrece ninguna esperanza para su futuro. Separada y con un hijo, está determinada a cambiar su vida. Por ello, abandona Londres en busca de sol y compañía, pero el camino no resultará fácil. Al recibir de pronto una noticia desgarradora, descubre que hay una fina línea entre la independencia y la soledad. Una novela de «fulgurante energía» (Colm Tóibín) que confirmó a Edna O’Brien como «una revolución en la escritura irlandesa» (John Banville).

Las fantasías y los anhelos se convierten en su nueva rutina, pero Lily teme que Loren Hale, mientras se recupera de su alcoholismo, acabe viéndola como lo que es: un monstruo. Al fin y al cabo, cuanto más tiempo le es fiel, más control ejerce su adicción sobre su vida. La relación disfuncional entre Lo y Lily está en la cuerda floja y, además, ahora que están a kilómetros de distancia, se verán obligados a encontrar alguna forma de reconectar. No poder tocarse se convierte en una de las pruebas más difíciles a las que deberán enfrentarse en su camino hacia la recuperación. Hay amores que no pasan de la superficie, pero hay otros mucho más profundos que la piel. Lily y Lo tienen tres meses para descubrir qué clase de amor es el suyo.