Sobre el horror

Gideon is a lonely, horny young Englishman who arrives in Paris to take up a teaching post in the local Berlitz, and becomes increasingly fascinated by the intoxicating atmosphere of erotic banter and bragging in the school's all-male and virtually all-gay common room. The moment has surely arrived for him, too, to overcome his own chronic timidity and actually do what he has only ever dared fantasize about. Yet Gideon has a secret - one he is prepared to share with nobody but the reader, a secret he is finally obliged to confront, with surprising results.

From the author of Lightborn, the third book in a Regency- flavored fantasy series of magic and manners. Magic dies with the mage, or so the Darkborn believe. That's why Lady Telmaine Hearne has been condemned to death for sorcery. She's escaped but is now bound with her mageborn allies for the Borders and war. Meanwhile, her husband, Balthasar, has learned of his family connection to the Shadowborn-and is fighting for survival and sanity as magic turns him against everything he holds dear.

Han pasado más de veinte años desde la noche de verano de 1986 en que la vida de Piedad, la limeña, y sus hijos comenzó a desmoronarse con la salida de Chile del mayor de ellos, Joaquín. El suicidio de Felipe es la ocasión para que la familia, o lo que queda de ella, vuelva a reunirse en Santiago para acompañar a su madre y despedirse de un hermano que apenas conocieron de adulto. En los días previos al funeral, los protagonistas de esta novela desvelarán un pasado que permanecía oculto, dando término a las historias oficiales sobre las que se había construido la familia y...

Una intensa historia de amor entre tres personajes inolvidables que cruzan tres culturas (la de los inmigrantes italianos en Argentina, la cultura criolla de Buenos Aires y la indígena de los indios expulsados por el General Roca) con los acontecimientos históricos del siglo XIX.