LETRAS

Travis Maddox aprendió dos cosas de su madre antes de que muriera: Ama con fuerza. Lucha todavía con más fuerza. En Inevitable desastre la vida de Travis es una espiral de mujeres, apuestas y violencia. Y, justo cuando se considera invencible, Abby Abernathy consigue derrotarlo. Pero toda historia tiene dos caras. En Maravilloso desastre, Abby tenía mucho que decir. Ahora ha llegado el momento de conocer la historia a través de los ojos de Travis. Por primera vez en su vida está abrumado por una chica. Es valiente, inteligente y guapa, pero él sabe que esconde algo. Al principio lo único que quiere es llevarla a la cama pero ella le deja claro que solo va a ser su amiga. Este arreglo no funciona porque cuanto más tiempo pasan juntos más le gusta. Abby es inocente y está herido, y Travis teme enamorarse de ella porque es diferente a las demás. Así que decide luchar.

Inés y la alegría: Toulouse, 1939. Carmen de Pe­dro, responsable en Francia de los diezmados co­munistas españoles, se cruza con Jesús Monzón; años después, en 1944, Monzón contará con un ejército de hombres dispuestos a invadir España. Entre ellos está Galán, quien cree que, tras el de­sembarco aliado y la retirada de los alemanes, es posible establecer un gobierno republicano en Viella. No lejos de allí, Inés, que apoyó la causa republicana durante la guerra, oye a escondidas el anuncio de la operación Reconquista de Es­paña en Radio Pirenaica, y se arma de valor, y de secreta alegría, para dejar atrás los peores años de su vida.

«Testimonio de transformación, disección íntima, búsqueda de conocimiento, Inacabada nos abre al amor y al más absoluto deseo de comprensión». Giuseppe Caputo «Quizá la experiencia trans sea inseparable de los rituales de los muertos. Velar el cuerpo quebrado, abrazarlo y cuidarlo en su tránsito», piensa una hija que anhela poner fin al silencio que se ha instalado entre ella y su madre a propósito de su tránsito de género. En el discurrir necesita nombrar esas dos palabras —soy mujer— que definen un renacer y a la vez un duelo por quien ha sido durante treinta y siete años. Pero ¿concluye en algún momento la experiencia de transitar? Repleta de reflexiones de gran calado, Inacabada es una novela que busca en el intersticio de los géneros literarios un lenguaje para habitar las distancias y detener la tristeza de una identidad no dicha, al tiempo que observa con precisión e inteligencia la posibilidad de liberar cargas familiares para volver a la vida.

Madison Walker left Rome, Kentucky, determined to make it in the culinary world. But after years of chasing success in New York, all she has to show for it is her shattered confidence and a desperate need for a fresh start. Coming home isn’t part of the plan—until an unexpected job offer lands in her lap: the head chef position at a new farm-to-table restaurant in her hometown. The only catch? It comes from James Huxley, owner of Huxley Farm, her brother’s best friend. James has always played it safe, keeping his head down and running the family business. But when Madison’s happiness is on the line, he’s willing to take up his estranged brother’s offer to launch a restaurant. James has loved her quietly for years, knowing she’s never seen him as more than an annoyance, but now that she’s back, he’s determined to change that. Madison and James are tasked with launching the dreamy restaurant in record time, but keeping things strictly professional soon becomes impossible, and the town can’t help but meddle in their relationship. As opening night looms closer, Madison’s fears threaten to hold her back. When an unexpected disaster collides with a long-simmering sibling feud, both Madison and James will have to face their biggest insecurities—and decide if love is worth the risk or if some dreams are safer left untouched.

Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. His captors assume Reacher was the driver’s accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk.

On a small island in a remote corner of northwest Scotland lies Maundrell castle, owned by its wealthy namesake family for centuries—until now. Edwina Nunn is shocked to learn a relative she never heard of has bequeathed the castle and its land to her. What awaits Edie and her teenage daughter, Neve, is even more startling, for the castle is home to a multitude of ghosts. Yet there’s a strange beauty in the austere architecture and the eerie, bloody waters of Loch na Scáthanna, the Lake of Shadows. Beguiled by a frightened ghost who gazes longingly out of the castle’s windows, Edie and Neve are drawn to the legends shrouding the island and the mystery of the Maundrell Red—a priceless diamond that disappeared decades before. Is the gem really cursed, and the cause of the family tragedies that have all occurred on Samhain—Scottish Halloween? As Samhain approaches once more, Edie and Neve race to peel back the dark secrets entwining the living and the dead—a twisted story of bitter cruelty and hidden love—or they will become another Maundrell tragedy trapped in the lonely hours . . .