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Jenara de Baraona participa en las intrigas absolutistas que rodean la intervención francesa de 1823 en España. Sus gestiones políticas se mezclan con la búsqueda de Salvador Monsalud y con los sentimientos que la unen a él. La novela sigue a sus personajes entre persecuciones, alianzas y enfrentamientos durante el final del Trienio Liberal.
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Durante una cacería, Fernando persigue a un ciervo hasta una fuente que su montero le aconseja evitar. Allí cree descubrir unos ojos verdes que no consigue olvidar. La atracción por una mujer misteriosa lo lleva a regresar al agua pese a las advertencias.
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En Sevilla, los vecinos se reúnen en Nochebuena para escuchar al organista ciego maese Pérez. Su música llena la iglesia de Santa Inés y despierta la admiración de todos. Cuando el músico ya no puede ocupar su puesto, el sonido del órgano empieza a rodearse de misterio.
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Shirley Mason hopes to build a marriage with Kent while continuing her work in interior decoration. His flirtations and the traces of another woman make her question the trust their life together requires. A mocking stage performance sharpens her doubts about what a wife is expected to accept.
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Jessie Dealey is nursing a dying woman when she becomes involved with Robert Walsh, a married farmer. A visit to his pregnant wife forces her to confront the promises he has made and the different futures the two women fear. Their encounter exposes the strain his conduct places on both their lives.
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Traveling salesman Connor arrives in Springfield late at night and asks where he can get a quiet meal. A hotel clerk sends him to a small restaurant known for serving customers with special diets. An unpleasant steak and an increasingly strange conversation make Connor suspect that the staff have mistaken him for someone else.
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Edward Falkland survives in a deserted city after plague and war, sheltering in a hospital while hungry dogs gather outside. Fear and isolation have made him hostile to the animals around him. An encounter with a wary Great Dane challenges that hostility and the habits on which his survival has come to depend.
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Florence Barker grows restless in her comfortable home while her husband Howard travels for work. The attentions of Roy Osney, a younger aspiring performer, offer excitement and lead to a request for money. Florence must decide how much she understands about the man she admires and the marriage she takes for granted.
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In prison, Luis hears Old Juan describe a cell where a hidden scorpion is said to kill its occupants during the night. When the guards move him there, the story becomes a threat he cannot put out of his mind. Alone in the darkness, he listens for movement and tries to endure until morning.
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After her death, Mona Wilson wakes in a gray world that resembles her former roominghouse. Bells, repetitive work and unfamiliar devices regulate life there, but the routines offer her little comfort. Her attempts to escape raise troubling questions about whether death has changed the conditions she wanted to leave behind.
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David Hughes stays in Queens while his wife and children spend the summer in the country. An affair with Janice Keller, who lives across the hall, offers an escape from his dissatisfaction with married life. Secrecy becomes harder to maintain as Janice’s expectations and the risk of discovery grow.
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The Otis family moves into an English house whose resident ghost expects to frighten them away. Instead, the Americans meet his rattling chains and mysterious stains with practical remedies and jokes. Only Virginia begins to understand the sorrow behind his haunting.
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William Rameses, a businessman fascinated by ancient Egypt, hires a woman whose appearance reminds him of Cleopatra. A visit to an antique dealer brings them into contact with a ring said to have belonged to the queen. As they investigate its inscription and history, an old curse begins to intrude on their lives.
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Millionaire Asa Brand recruits Clark Stannard and a group of desperate men to search for the legendary Lake of Life in Africa. Their expedition enters a hidden region divided by rival peoples and dangerous alliances. Stories of waters that promise immortality draw the travelers into a struggle over who will reach the lake first.
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In this first volume, Count Angelo D’Albini takes shelter with the reclusive Montmorency and his daughter Gabrielle in Switzerland. Gabrielle falls in love with their visitor, whose restlessness and vanity threaten the quiet life she has known. The story moves toward Naples, where Angelo’s attachments draw him into jealousy and intrigue.
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