Peones ciegos

Pequeños bocados de fantasía oscura, terror paranormal y ficción apocalíptica para los paladares más selectos.

Another dazzling novel by the author of the best-selling novel, Girl With A Pearl Earring. Chevalier draws a picture of family life that exposes the prejudices and flaws of a changing time, set against a backdrop of social and political turbulence in early twentieth-century London. "In her New York Times best-selling follow-up, Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Graced with the luminous imagery that distinguished Girl With a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels is another dazzling tour de force from this "master of voices" /The New York Times ...

La inclasificable novela que ha ganado el Premio Locus 2020 al debut del año y ha sido finalista de los premios Hugo, Nebula y World Fantasy a la mejor novela. El Emperador necesita nigromantes. La nigromante de la Novena necesita una espadachina. Gideon tiene una espada, unas revistas guarras y ninguna paciencia para tonterías con los muertos vivientes. Después de haber sido criada por profesoras antipáticas y osificadas, sirvientes vetustos y una infinidad de esqueletos, Gideon está lista para abandonar una vida de servidumbre y un más allá como cadáver reanimado. Mete su espada y...

Doing the right thing could destroy everything If doing the right thing puts your life at risk should you still do it? Once a woman of wealth and privilege, Kate Whitehead now lives an ordinary life in an ordinary San Diego neighbourhood as ordinary Tricia Campbell. It has been two years since she escaped her powerful and abusive husband and became a different person. She disappeared for her own safety–and that of her unborn child. Tricia has found a measure of happiness with paramedic Scott McCall, although he knows nothing of her background, and they live as a family with her son. Then a...