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Someone has put up for sale a radioactive source that, officially, does not exist. The room is called The Lot Room, appears on no map, and its bulletins always arrive at six in the morning, signed by a man known only as the Notary.

Gideon Ashe, a former British secret service agent, has worked hanging from a wind turbine in the North Sea since an operation in Kazakhstan ended in disaster. Solène Mercier, a data analyst in Lyon, found the auction by accident, and now someone wants to wipe it off the map.

From Marseille to Istanbul, from Rotterdam to the Galician coast, the two will have to bid with the only thing they have left: what they know. Because in this auction the bidders are warlords, and the starting price is counted in lives.

Every round has a deadline. Every mistake, a death.

Desire has its rules. She'll set her own. Candela Arrieta makes her living describing what others desire — until Julián Villaseca walks in with the most scandalous collection to hit the market in decades.

He sets a single condition: she catalogues the collection herself, in that very house. Amid orange-blossom courtyards and a green leather book someone wants to sell, Candela will have to decide what she wants.

First book in the Colección privada series. Contains explicit sexual content. For adult readers.

Desire has its rules. She'll set her own.

Paloma Ríos has spent twenty years photographing what other people desire: bronzes, ivories, forbidden prints, the walnut cross of a secret Sevillian club. She is thirty-eight, with her father's camera, a new post in London and one rule she never breaks: she is never in the photos.

Until her boss, Héctor Lamas, sends her to Tangier to appraise the archive of Gaspard Rey, a French photographer who for fourteen years portrayed, in a house in the Kasbah, people who knocked on his door to be looked at. Eight thousand negatives nobody has seen since 1983. And an heir, Idris Rey, who sets a single condition: before she touches a negative, she must sit in the chair. And he will shoot.

Idris addresses her formally, looks long before he touches and trusts nobody who carries a camera. Paloma has never posed in her life. Among rooftops swept by the levante wind, a darkroom with red light and a cardboard form with three boxes —look, keep, show—, the two begin to play at who is looking at whom.

But in London someone has already put a price on the archive. Paloma is keeping a secret that could close that house forever. And in Tangier, a woman who sat in that chair in 1975 has not yet had her last word.

An erotic, funny and unreserved novel about desire, the gaze and the right to decide who gets to see you. Second book in the Colección privada series. Contains sex scenes between consenting adults. For adult readers.

At carnival, nobody plays with their face uncovered.

Rita Olmedo has spent twelve years winning court cases against her ex-husband. She is an estate lawyer, has lived in Venice since they separated and is right almost all the time, which is her worst flaw.

This carnival she is defending the Ferrer family, who refuse to sell the casino where Venetian noblemen have gambled in masks since 1748: four rooms, one hundred and twelve masks and a cupboard full of betting books. The appraiser sent by the auction house is Héctor Lamas. The same grey coat. The same scarf he swore he had lost in the divorce. The same habit of putting a price on everything.

He proposes a bet in the house style: Shrove Tuesday, at midnight, in the hall of mirrors. She has never lost one in her life. Among masks that don't let you speak, a notebook where everything wagered is written down, a ninety-one-year-old countess who cheats and a buyer nobody will name, Rita and Héctor are going to discover that the hard part isn't winning. It's risking something without a mask.

The third book of the Colección privada series: an erotic, funny and bold novel about what we are willing to lose. Contains sex scenes between consenting adults. For adult readers.

Valeria Montenegro doesn't need rescuing. At thirty-eight she runs her own communications agency in Madrid, solves other people's crises with exactly the right sentence and never lets anyone else write her headline.

When Aldaba Capital hires her to defend the purchase of the Cine Fénix, a 1931 Art Deco cinema-theatre the fund wants to turn into a hotel, the obstacle has a name: Mateo Larrea, the architect who refuses to lie about the building. He doesn't want to save her, or buy her, or beat her. He wants to understand her, and that is the most dangerous thing to happen to Valeria in years.

One night, one rule and three agreed words should be enough to keep everything under control. But in a city where everything leaks, a stolen photograph, an ex-husband with too good a memory and an investment fund prepared to do anything test the one thing she has never known how to manage: what she feels.

A contemporary romance about power, desire and what it costs to tell the truth out loud.

A novel for adult readers: contains intimate scenes between consenting adults.

Candela Arrieta puts a price on everything. Except what she feels.

Twelve years of telling people how much the things they love are worth have left her with a magnifying glass around her neck, a rule —there are no lies in her catalogues—, a flat with a single key since August and the habit of making a mental file card on everyone she meets. When an auction house in Trieste hires her to catalogue the two hundred and twelve lots of a deceased shipping magnate, Candela discovers the small print: the collection doesn't leave the yacht, and neither does she. Twenty-one days, from Lisbon to Trieste, eight countries and a crew that is hard to appraise.

Aboard La Sibila travel a Norwegian captain who never raises her voice, a Croatian first mate who has no need to, an Argentine restorer with patient hands, a German dealer who offers bribes with exquisite politeness and a French widow who keeps a private club on the lower deck with three words as its only law: Zarpar, Pairo, Ancla (Set sail, Heave to, Anchor).

But someone is swapping genuine pieces for copies. And Candela, who has never lied on a file card and knows how to ask for what she wants, will have to learn to let herself be held, and to tell what is fake from what is lied about, before the hammer falls in Trieste.

A romantic novel for adults, with humour, intrigue and plenty of heat, from the Colección privada series. It can be read as a standalone.

Contains sex scenes between consenting adults. For adult readers.

How many diets have you already started, and how many are you still keeping up today? Nutrición Inteligente fuses two worlds rarely explained together: how your mind works when deciding what to eat, and what the science really says.

Across twenty-seven chapters, the book first tackles the mental mechanisms that sabotage dietary change, then moves into metabolism, insulin resistance, and a realistic plan built to last for years, not two weeks.

How many times have you started a real change and abandoned it before it worked? Not another book of motivational quotes: a working manual of 28 chapters, each with a concrete exercise.

It includes an eight-step method for turning a vague goal into a plan with a real deadline, 49 applied cases, ready-to-use templates, a guided 90-day plan and a 30-day journal.

Why do two people of the same age grow old at such different rates? What do the famous “epigenetic clocks” and the biological-age tests sold online really measure? How much of how you age depends on what you do every day?

Antiedad y epigenética (Anti-ageing and epigenetics) explains clearly, and without promises, what science knows today about how cells age: what epigenetics is, what telomeres and senescent cells are, and what studies say about tobacco, alcohol, sleep, stress, loneliness, diet, strength training and supplements. It also looks at the case of María Branyas, the longest-lived woman of her time, and at the research frontier: cellular reprogramming, rapamycin, metformin and weight-loss drugs.

Each chapter ends with a “What we know and what we don’t” box that separates what has been shown from what is only assumed, with a practical exercise and with the sources so you can check everything. At the end you will find a realistic twelve-week plan, five measurements you can take at home, a glossary, frequently asked questions and printable templates.

A book for adults without a scientific background who want to age better and don’t want to be sold snake oil.

This book is for general readers and does not replace the advice of a health professional.

In August 2016, in Copenhagen, a physicist paid off a bet with a bottle of cognac: the particles predicted by supersymmetry had not appeared at the Large Hadron Collider. That bottle sums up half a century of history.

La apuesta de las cuerdas (The String Wager) tells how an idea born by accident, that particles are not points but tiny vibrating strings, became the most studied candidate for a theory of everything: the one that would reconcile Einstein’s general relativity with quantum mechanics.

Without a single equation, the book explains why those two theories don’t talk to each other, where the extra dimensions come from, how five theories turned out to be one, what the theory says about black holes, and why it has ended up predicting a landscape of possible universes.

And it raises the uncomfortable question: is a theory that, after fifty years, still has no experimental proof science? It reviews where such proof might appear and what the theory has already given to mathematics and physics, even if it turns out to be wrong in the end.

Every claim carries a mark showing whether it is verified, proven only in mathematics, or a hypothesis, so that readers can tell what we know from what we assume and decide for themselves.

She came back to sell her grandmother's house. She stayed to rebuild it, board by board. Elsa Duarte returns to Puerto Vela with a four-day plan… that lasts until the east wing's roof caves in.

Roque Andrade, the only boat carpenter for a hundred kilometres around, wants neither the job nor anyone from Madrid in his cove. What begins as a two-month truce becomes something neither of them had budgeted for.

Contemporary romance. Happy ending guaranteed. Sensual scenes without explicit content.

Year 2035. Six years after the Collapse, Spain lives under detailed surveillance: every gesture, every word, every silence is scored. Truth is no longer debated — it's programmed.

Marcos Salas, exiled and erased from the systems he helped build, and Alba Ríos, a journalist with a past the algorithms don't forgive, set something in motion they can no longer stop.

An espionage thriller and technological dystopia about what's left of the truth when someone else decides what gets remembered.

Every morning, two strangers share a table at the same café in Geneva. Neither suspects the other is Europe's most wanted.

By night, Daniel Wren is The Clockmaker, the most methodical art thief on the continent. Élise Moreau is The Muse, the thief no one has ever seen come or go. They've been competing for months without knowing it… until they fall for the stranger at the next table.

An international romantic suspense novel about two rivals turned accomplices, and the real price of no longer pretending to be someone else.

Nobody notices him. That is his greatest talent… and his greatest lie.

Andrés Muñoz Vega is fifty-three, with a grey job as an insurance assessor in Madrid and a face nobody remembers. Just one more in the crowd. But Andrés knows he is not like everyone else. He reads a micro-expression before it forms. He detects a lie in the rhythm of someone's typing. In tenths of a second, his mind unfolds ten possible futures for a simple conversation. And he can switch off fear, pain and even his own feelings like flicking a switch. He has spent his whole life hiding it. Until a stranger dies in Bilbao and names him the beneficiary of his life insurance.

That man was like him. And he was not the only one. Following a trail of stolen babies, impossible intelligence tests and old Commodore 64 programs, Andrés discovers he is Subject 9 in a secret experiment that was never finished… and that someone is hunting down, one by one, those who remain. To survive he will have to trust Nora, a brilliant neuropsychologist with too many secrets and the only person in the world he cannot read. Because when your mind sees everything coming, the most dangerous thing is the one thing you cannot foresee.

An addictive psychological and technological thriller, with short chapters and constant twists, for readers of Dan Brown, Juan Gómez-Jurado and Blake Crouch.

No one notices him. That’s his greatest talent… and his greatest lie.

Andrés Muñoz Vega is fifty-three, works a gray job as an insurance investigator in Madrid, and has a face no one remembers. Just another man in the crowd. But Andrés is not like everyone else. He reads a micro-expression before it forms. He catches a lie in the rhythm of someone’s typing. In tenths of a second, his mind lays out ten possible futures for a simple conversation. And he can switch off fear, pain, even his own feelings, like flipping a switch. He has spent his whole life hiding it. Until a stranger dies in Bilbao and names him the sole beneficiary of his life insurance.

That man was like him. And he was not the only one. Following a trail of stolen babies, impossible intelligence tests, and old Commodore 64 programs, Andrés discovers that he is Subject 9 of a secret experiment that never ended, and that someone is hunting the survivors, one by one. To survive, he will have to trust Nora, a brilliant neuropsychologist with too many secrets and the only person in the world he cannot read. Because when your mind sees everything coming, the deadliest thing is the one you can’t predict.

A fast, cerebral psychological thriller set between Madrid, Bilbao, Barcelona, Geneva, and a secret laboratory under the Pyrenees. English edition (US).