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In the intense Madrid summer, undercover cop Erica Sánchez struggles to be herself.
The roles that she is expected to play —devout Muslim, anti-system rebel, conventional fiancée— are everything that she is not. She longs for the peaceful mountains of Asturias, where her boyfriend has been sent on an assignment. So when the city becomes unsafe, it is there that Erica flees to join him. Only the old mountains hold an unimaginable secret. contemporary thriller 77,000 words |
"All she had to do was press the button strapped to her thigh. She sat dripping perspiration, her heart thumping. The long weeks of carefully rehearsed preparation with the team were as nothing compared to these last, stifling, lonely minutes.
"She had, or imagined she had, a minor tremble in her right hand. I’m not alright, she realized. There’s no air in here: I need more air.
"Do it, do it, answered her breath, fast and shallow.
She couldn’t pull out now. She had to go through with it. Wait for the moment, squeeze the trigger, and her work would be done.
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