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When a high-powered gallery owner collides with an offbeat artist, it's a recipe for disaster. Sasha, a widow, falls in love with Liam, an artist, whose behavior helped tear his marriage apart. Because of their age difference, and her grown children, they must keep their relationship a secret. But can they, especially when Liam is so good at creating chaos and bringing out the wild streak in Sasha? When tragedy strikes, it forces a sacrifice that neither of them could have expected.

Ninguno hablaba. De la sala contigua llegaba una tenue música barroca. Ese era el único sonido, a excepción del silbato de un tren lejano. A la derecha de Cristina, el carrito de caoba mostraba el cesto de panecillos, los cubiertos de servir y dos fuentes de cristal con uvas y kiwis. Todo estaba intacto. El orden era perfecto. Todos estaban muertos. Todos menos uno.

In 1978, when the Red Brigades kidnapped and murdered politician and Communist leader Aldo Moro, shocking all of Italy, Leonardo Sciascia, then MP for the Radical Party, participated in the commission that investigated the incident. That same year, on the fly, he wrote The Moro Case, which reads like a novel, but the author felt, above all, a work of truth.

As part of the larger, ongoing movement throughout Latin America to reclaim non-Hispanic cultural heritages and identities, indigenous writers in Mexico are reappropriating the written word in their ancestral tongues and in Spanish. As a result, the long-marginalized, innermost feelings, needs, and worldviews of Mexico's ten to twenty million indigenous peoples are now being widely revealed to the Western societies with which these peoples coexist. To contribute to this process and serve as a bridge of intercultural communication and understanding, this groundbreaking anthology—to be...