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After a sudden death, Luciana is obliged to carry out a final wish for her grandmother: to locate three women and return to them personal objects of great sentimental value (a wedding ring, a locket and an engagement ring.) Doing this means revisiting a past which isn't hers but will shape her present life and transform her future.
Finding a husband in three weeks in order to make a dream come true might seem difficult… Madrid 1640. The actress Elisa Villanueva has the chance to fulfil one of her dreams: to appear on stage at the opening of El Coliseo, the theatre Felipe IV has had built in the Buen Retiro palace. But her single status is a obstacle, and she has only three weeks to find a husband.
The lessons of a strict father, the Stuart king, sculpted a hard aggressive personality. He considered victory on the battlefield as a means rather than an end. His ultimate desire was the humiliation of his rival and his coronation as future king of all before him. He longed to become the new Alexander the Great.
Thirteen-year-old Narnel Mozart is the older sister of the brilliant composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like any boy his age, he loves playing and mischief, and what he finds most difficult to understand is adults. He likes parties… but not the ones he's invited to, in courts and palaces. There, people look at him as if he's weird.
A folder has been found with two hundred typed pages signed by the writer Teseo Yedra. Three decades after the author sent it to her agent, and with no record of it ever being received, experts on her writing have no doubts that this was the highly anticipated new novel of the author, who has just won a great literary award.
Where does history take us? From the positive knowledge of philology and classical culture, where Rodríguez Adrados first made his name, it constructs the plan for a philosophy of history structured around a central idea: that Ancient Greece forms a before and after in the progress of history, a cultural heritage which radiates to the present day.
London 1866. Yet again, José Rodríguez Losada is on the run from his past. Having left the family home as a boy, he is forced for political reasons to exile himself from the absolutist Spain of Fernando VII. Now he lives in London, a more advanced city, one which holds the promise of a hopeful future.
The story started in the Cave of la Moura, whose protagonist Eva, is now passing the baton to two teenagers: Katy - one of the most powerful of the 'Oscuras' ( 'dark women') unable to control her powers and in love with a boy who does not reciprocate her love - and Anthony, a 'Luminoso' ('luminous') with a complicated past and an uncertain future, since he must act as the older brother of the girl
The story begins in Candace, the capital of the Union of Superior Worlds, a small planet from which all the universes are ruled. On Candace live a couple, the siblings and husband and wife Khilayan and Ayenhea, who decide the fate of all the known worlds.
12 April, 1097. A tall, thin man arrives at the little castle of Dornoch; he is slightly bent over and has a deformed nose. It is Macbeth, son of Macbeth, king of Scotland, and he is here to be reunited with Fleance, son of Banquo, to whom he is linked by a story of crimes and blood.