El Hijo de la Perdicion = Son of Perdition

L.A. lawyer Sandy Walker is the court-appointed defense counsel for people accused of abusing their children. While trying to untangle the difficult, delicate lives of her clients, Sandy finds herself caught in a hidden life she cannot admit to, much less redeem.

En una ciudad vacía y espectral, sitiada por una enfermedad que obliga a la población a un aislamiento total, un profesor de historia del arte intenta sobrellevar su encierro elaborando unas estrategias de supervivencia emocional que le permitan realizar una fuga de ese mundo distópico a través de la imaginación, el recuerdo y la correspondencia epistolar. La novela crea, así, una pluralidad de niveles narrativos, el primero de los cuales es el de la rememoración de fragmentos aislados pero constitutivos de un pasado personal, al que se suman un segundo plano que remite a un proyecto...

Martin and Maggie, a judge and an artist, have forged a life together for thirty-seven years. They have a son who is a successful lawyer and a grandson to dote on. Life is good, comfortable, familiar. But one day Martin leaves a family lunch and drives to a suburb miles away, to a particular house in a particular street, where an accident triggers a chain of events. No one knows why he was there - not even Martin himself - and as his mind starts unravelling, it is left to Maggie to discover what in Martin's past is troubling him, and where it is going to take them. While Maggie pieces...

Daniel Rivera is stunned to discover that the scientist whom he is supposed to guide on a solo field expedition is the sultry Patricia Martinez, the once naive teenager whom he had once loved and who had abandoned him without an explanation, in a bilingual romance featuring consecutive texts in English and Spanish. Original.