Susan Fletcher

With the death of a mother and the abduction of a young girl, Susan Fletcher has written a vividly beautiful novel about the innocence and terror of childhood. Following the loss of her mother, eight-year-old Evie is sent to a new life in rural Wales -- a dripping place, where flowers appear mysteriously on doorsteps and people look at her twice. With a sense of being lied to she sets out to discover her family's dark secret -- unaware that there is yet more darkness to come with the sinister disappearance of local girl Rosemary Hughes. Now many years later Eve Green is waiting for the birth of her own child, and when she revisits her past something clicks in her mind and her own reckless role in the hunt for Rosie's abductor is revealed...A truly beautiful and hypnotic first novel, this is both an engaging puzzle and an enchanting work of literature.

Mitra y su hermanito Babak, mendigos en la ciudad de Rhagae, van saliendo adelante con lo que consiguen mendigar... o robar. Sin embargo, no son lo que parecen: tienen sangre real. La conspiración fracasada de su padre contra el malvado y tirano rey Fraates ha provocado el exilio para ellos, y es ahora cuando descubren que Babak tiene un don excepcional: si duerme con un objeto de alguien, puede conocer los sueños de esa persona. Un poderoso mago oye hablar de Babak y sus dotes. Es un mago que ha interpretado en las estrellas el presagio de la llegada de un nuevo rey en Belen y del albor de una nueva era...