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La joven en cuya cabeza pululan estas palabras vive en un suburbio de París, tiene una hija de diez años y un marido que ha trazado para ellas un plan lleno de fronteras. La joven en cuya cabeza pululan estas palabras ha visto un vestido rojo en un escaparate, ha intentado comprarlo pero no puede. Piensa en que quizás, algún día, su hija pueda ponérselo en su nombre. Desea que, algún día, su hija se lo ponga en su nombre. La joven madre que desea el vestido rojo no sabe leer. Sin embargo, acaba de llevar a casa un libro que ha encontrado en el descansillo de su piso. Podría ser del vecino, pero lleva varios días ahí y no lo ha recogido. Ella no sabe leer, pero su hija sí. Ese libro no puede estar ahí por casualidad. ¿Quién es ese Kant que habla de atreverse, de conocerse, de la necesidad de ilustrarse, de saber, para ser un individuo completo, una persona? La joven madre no es una joven madre cualquiera. Es francesa, pero no es blanca ni católica. La joven madre de esta novela es un fantasma que se esconde tras un burka.

The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams…. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion. With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like. But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.

Sending Damon to prison was the worst thing Winter could’ve done. It didn’t matter that he did the crime or that she wished he was dead. Winter thought he’d cool off in jail and be anything but the horror he was, or that at the very least she’d have time to disappear before he got out. But she was wrong. Three years came and went too fast, and prison only gave him time to plan. And while Winter anticipated his vengeance, she didn’t expect this. He doesn’t want to make her hurt. He wants to make everything hurt. Damon knows he needs to get rid of Winter’s father, giving her, her sister, and her mother nowhere to run. The Ashby women are desperate for a knight in shining armor. But that’s not what’s coming. It’s time Damon took control of his future. It’s time he showed them all that he will never stop being the nightmare they think he is. Damon won’t have to break into her home to do it. As the new man of the house, he has all the keys.

She escaped a serial killer. Then things got weird. Amber Jamison can’t believe she’s about to become the latest victim of a serial killer. She’s savvy and street smart, so when she gets pushed into, of all things, a white windowless van, she is more angry than afraid. Things get even weirder when she’s miraculously saved by a mysterious woman . . . who promptly disappears. Who was she? And why is she hunting serial killers? You’d think escaping one psychopath would be enough, but Amber’s problems are just beginning. Her close call has law enforcement circling a past she’s tried to outrun. She’s forced to flee across the country, ending up at a seedy motel in Las Vegas with a noir-obsessed manager and a sex worker as her unlikely companions . . . and danger right behind. She’s landed in the cross hairs of the world’s most prolific killer, caught up in a deadly game that’s been going on for years. To survive, she is forced to dust off her old playbook and partner with someone she can’t trust. The odds are against her, but sometimes you just have to roll the dice.

Enrique Montez, smooth-talking heir to the Taco King empire, is man enough to admit that he made a critical error when he underestimated Carolina Flores. The agricultural hotshot should have been an easy conquest—who would turn down the chance to partner with California’s largest fast-food chain? But instead of signing her name on the dotted line, Carolina has Enrique eating out of the palm of her hand, and when fate steps in with an unexpected opportunity, Enrique is willing to do whatever it takes to capture her heart. Growing up as the daughter of farmworkers, Carolina spent her youth picking strawberries in the fields of Santa Maria and vowing to improve the lives of people like her parents. Now, as one of only a few Latina farm owners, she has no time for romance and she’s certainly not about to let the notorious Montez brother anywhere near her business—even if just being near Enrique makes her skin tingle. But she is willing to let him help get her overinvolved family off her back. When Carolina’s father and her lovelorn sisters mistake Enrique for her (nonexistent) boyfriend, she reluctantly agrees to a series of pretend dates to their town’s traditional Mexican-American holiday celebrations. Soon the fake feelings turn real and both Carolina and Enrique must convince each other to take a chance on love before their vacation romance is over.

Pero, ¿cómo llega un escritor realista como Turguénev a escribir relatos de terror? Apoyándose en la realidad: desafiará la naturaleza siempre y cuando no solo lo escrito resulte verosímil, sino cuando reflejen esos temas sociales que siempre han dominado su obra. Klara Mílich y otros relatos de terror de Turguénev no es una mera selección cuentos escalofriantes que recurren al horror con el objetivo de asustar. Turguénev emplea el terror para hablarnos de una forma más poética, más simbólica, de los problemas sociales que siempre desataron su pluma. A través de ellos nos plantea las cuestiones que siempre han interesado y afectado a la humanidad.