La conjura de los lobos

In this short story collection, the author explores with wit and humor the absurdities of daily life and, specially, of love. The characters and their complex minds, their search for stability and their failures, leads them to look for answers that might appear disconcerting and familiar at the same time. A seductive collection of stories that shows the author's talent in exploring daily life issues.

Portraying the discontinuity of the streets of Barcelona, of time, and, above all, of the existence of each one of its inhabitants, this noir novel turns the everyday into something epic. Five chapters contain five independent stories with characters that speak for themselves yet share the same tone, and the Gracia neighborhood serves as the main line that connects them. The plot revolves around a man named José García, who is killed by his own son, also named José García. The event is witnessed by a neighbor who bears the same name and is reminded of another murder he had seen years...

Una mujer a merced de los caprichos del destino. Un intento de violación marca para siempre la vida de Heather. Al verse acosada por su agresor, lo hiere de muerte. Horrorizada, huye y empieza a vagar por las calles de Londres. Acaba en un barco, donde el capitán, confundiéndola con una prostituta, abusa de ella. Al cabo de un tiempo, Heather descubre que está embarazada, y el capitán del barco accede a reparar la deshonra tomándola por esposa. Poco a poco, el inicial recelo entre ambos da paso al afecto y madura el germen del amor. Sin embargo, el pasado acecha, presto a asestar un...

The night before her first day as a middle-school teacher, Celeste Price fiercely masturbates. She is a young and beautiful woman with a husband 17 years older than her. He is a police officer, as gorgeous as she is. At school Celeste cares little for anything but her pleasure and recounts her elaborate, determined, and sociopathic seduction of a 14-year-old student.