LETRAS

1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide…

Chelsea Cox parece tenerlo todo: es la popstar más famosa de su generación, tiene una voz única y Matthew, su novio, es guapo y talentoso. Aparentan ser la pareja ideal, pero pocos saben que detrás del brillo de la fama se esconde una relación tóxica y una peligrosa adicción a las drogas. Silenciosamente, esta adicción lleva a Chelsea a perder a la única persona que la ha visto sin su máscara… y también a perderse a ella misma.Sin embargo, una noche, cuando ya la esperanza la ha abandonado, aparece él. Él, con sus ojos verdes. Él, con su fama de ser el beisbolista de la década. Él, quien está a punto de perderlo todo. Isaac. Un hombre dulce y paciente que, mientras lucha con sus propios demonios, lo dará todo por ella.Después de una intensa atracción, de soñar con ser libre y de tener su vida llena de miles de rosas amarillas, Chelsea intentará descubrir quién es ella cuando ya no hay paparazis, quién es realmente cuando está en su backstage.

A murder victim dumped at the dead end of a lonely country road, face and hands obliterated by a shotgun blast, is not the way sheriff’s detective Nick Fourcade wants to start his week. His only lead takes him to the family of a hometown hero suddenly gone missing. Marc Mercier left his home for a weekend hunting trip and hasn’t been seen since. Meanwhile, sheriff’s detective Annie Broussard begins her first day back on the job after suffering a brutal attack by taking on the case of B’Lynn Fontenot, a mother desperate to find her grown son, a recovering drug addict. Robbie Fontenot has been missing for eight days, but the local police have no interest in the case, telling B’Lynn that an adult has the right to disappear, and a missing addict is no big surprise. But B’Lynn swears her son was turning his life around. Sympathetic to a mother’s anguish, Annie agrees to help B’Lynn, knowing she’s about to start a turf war with the city police.