NOVEDADES

Brielle Atwater isn't sure of much, but she knows a few things: Having black wings is not normal. Selling her soul to the demons was a mistake. Lincoln Grey is the biggest jerk she's ever met…but not falling in love with him might prove impossible. When angels fell from the sky to war with the demons that ravaged Earth, their combined powers infected humanity. Now, the humans are assigned one of two fates, being either demon gifted or angel blessed. After wings sprout from Brielle's back at her awakening ceremony, she's sure she's an angel blessed celestial. It's not until she sees black wings that she realizes something is terribly wrong. Having sold her contract at a young age to save her father's life means she should be bound for Tainted Academy. That is, until a fallen angel unexpectedly fights for her to be accepted into Fallen Academy, the elite school for those that inhabit Angel City. She's immediately matched with her impossibly handsome celestial teacher, Lincoln Grey. Laying eyes on him, her first thought is that her time at the academy might actually be fun, but this theory quickly fades when she and Lincoln clash on day one. To further prove her admission into Fallen Academy is cursed, the entire school is thrown into chaos when an Abrus demon reveals that he knows Brielle's secret. Now, above all else, Lincoln must fight to protect her.

When she learns about an opportunity to free her mother from Demon City, she takes it. No matter how dangerous, Brielle will do anything to unite her family in Angel City. All is going according to plan, until her brother's awakening ceremony. What he is…it shocks everyone, and he's sent away until he can get his powers under control. When Brielle loses someone precious to her, she goes to great lengths to get them back, lengths Lincoln doesn't agree with. He thinks Brielle is too much of a risk taker—too wild, and all he can do is try his best to protect her. But with untold powers rising inside of her, Brielle might go to a place that no one can bring her back from. Not even Lincoln. Brielle needs to learn to fight the darkness that threatens to take her over because, little by little, she's losing her light.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio es uno de los novelistas franceses más celebrados y leídos en su país desde que, en 1963, ganara el renombrado Premio Renaudot con su primera novela, Le procès-verbal. Lo curioso es que, tras haber escrito más de treinta libros y haber sido traducido en el mundo entero, en nuestra lengua aún siga siendo prácticamente desconocido. Con la publicación de La cuarentena queremos remediar este incomprensible «descuido» y situar por fin a Le Clézio, también entre nosotros, en el lugar que merece. Corre el año 1872 cuando en una taberna parisiense irrumpe desafiante el poeta Arthur Rimbaud y amenaza a la clientela. Diecinueve años después, Jacques Archambau, un joven médico que de niño asistió atónito a la tormentosa escena y que ignora cuán ligado se halla su destino al del célebre poeta, embarca en el Ava con su esposa Suzanne y su hermano Léon rumbo a la isla Mauricio, su tierra natal. Allí les espera el gran clan familiar que antaño expulsara al padre de Jacques y Léon. Sin embargo, tras declararse dos casos de cólera en el barco, los pasajeros -un puñado de europeos y multitud de indios contratados para la recolección de la caña de azúcar- se ven obligados a desembarcar en la isla Plate, frente a Mauricio, para pasar la cuarentena. Abandonados a su suerte, verán convertirse la paradisiaca isla en un infierno del que no saben si saldrán con vida. Frente a un Jacques perplejo y una Suzanne tal vez ya contagiada, Léon volverá los ojos hacia la isla, hacia la joven y bella india Suryavati. Hacia la vida.