When Samuel, a lonely linguistics lecturer, wakes up on New Year{u2019}s Day, he is convinced that the year ahead will bring nothing more than passive verbs and un-italicized moments--until an unexpected visitor slips into his Barcelona apartment and refuses to leave. The appearance of Mishima, a stray, brindle-furred cat, becomes the catalyst that leads Samuel from the comforts of his favorite books, foreign films, and classical music to places he{u2019}s...

Charlotte Hilaire, museum courier, and Adrianna Coates, art historican, rekindle a college romance in Madrid, Spain. Can this long distance relationship be maintained when Charlotte returns to the United States?

En La Ronda, el premiado autor Francisco Bescós le pone una marcha más al género negro con una novela policial ambiciosa, repleta de giros y adrenalina. In La Ronda, award-winning author Francisco Bescós takes the noir genre up a notch with an ambitious detective novel, full of twists and adrenaline.

"Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once-renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with whatever painting commissions he can get. But when he is approached by a mysterious woman who wants him to paint a portrait of the man who killed her son, he soon becomes entangled in a web of deceit in which no one, and nothing,...

"Through the rich inner lives of two ordinary, unforgettable women, award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel brings a half-century of the feminist movement to life, revealing the simmering truth that money is ultimately the limiting factor in most women's lives"-- Mar̕a moved to the city in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her one day. She worked as a housekeeper, a caregiver, a cleaner--somehow...

After receiving an alarm call, the police found a man stained with blood and a knife with his prints next to the body of his wife in a chalet in a Madrid urbanization. A year later, an old man turns himself in to the police claiming to be the kidnapper of three missing persons: the defense attorney for his son, the judge who convicted him, and a young student who testified against him at trial. Convinced that the three were bribed, the man assures...

"In this stunning debut, Javier Fuentes chronicles a tumultuous, passionate love affair between two young men from vastly different worlds during one, extraordinary summer in Spain, in what is ultimately a meditation on identity, class, belonging and desire. It is 2007, in New York where Demetrio, 30, is a celebrated pastry chef at the French restaurant, Le Bourrelet. It will be his seventh year as their pâtissier and the chef-owner, stern, but paternal...

"Cuando Alejandro conoció a David, su sonrisa le pareció la magia que podría salvarlo de sí mismo. Durante años ambos se consideraron afortunados, creían que el amor que compartían era capaz de aguantar todo tipo de tormentas. Todas menos una. Hace diez años que se fue de Madrid dejando su dolor, su corazón y a David sin apenas dar explicación. Ahora Alejandro está preparado para enfrentarse al pasado y a David, quien no ha conseguido...

Juan de Vere recalls how, as personal assistant to aging film director Eduardo Muriel in Madrid in 1980, he became involved in Muriel's unhappy marriage to Beatriz Noguera and her relationship with an old friend.