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1956. After getting pregnant, Ivy Jenkins is sent to St Margaret's, a dark and gloomy house for single mothers she will never leave. Her baby is adopted against her will. Today, Samantha Harper is a journalist in desperate need of a break. When she comes across a letter from the past, she is surprised and deeply moved by its contents. The letter is from a young mother who begs to be rescued from St Margaret's before it is too late. Samantha will be involved in a tragic story related to a series of unexplained deaths surrounding the girl in the letter and her son. With St Margaret's about to...

La presente edición cuenta con la recopilación de veinticuatro cuentos, donde se enlazan el romanticismo de principios del siglo pasado, el surrealismo y lo cotidiano en algunas narraciones dramáticas y otras chuscas que dan un toque humorístico al libro.

No matter where, no matter when, no matter what. Almost twenty years ago, on a beautiful coastal cliff, Juliette Cole, Anna Kendall and Sera Di Maggio linked pinkies and made a vow to be there for each other no matter what might happen in their lives. Now Juliette is calling in the promise – terminally ill, she wants her two friends to come back to Ellesmere to help her through her last summer. The trouble is Anna and Sera haven't spoken in years, and Anna hasn't returned home since she and her mother were run out of town in disgrace. But Anna and Sera do have one thing in common: they want ...

La hostilidad se desvanece cuando toca hacer frente a un enemigo común... Sara está casada con Fernando, cuyo mayor deseo es convertirse en padre, pero ella no consigue quedarse embarazada. Se ha sometido a múltiples tratamientos de fertilidad... todos ellos con resultado negativo lo que la deja destrozada y deprimida. Su marido la sorprende con un viaje a Arizona (USA) para ver el gran cañón del Colorado, pero ese regalo esconde la visita a una clínica de fertilidad en California. Mientras están en el mirador del Cañón del Colorado Fernando se ausenta para tomar unas fotografías y...