Author: Sampedro, Helena.
Publisher: Planeta Publishing
Pages:302
"A powerful cocktail made with the mixture of exact doses of José Donoso and Dan Brown—is the triumph of this painful and tender, sweet and perverse, entertaining and profound novel, which is also ambitious and accurate" Iván Thays, El Vocero The great achievement of this novel is to have been able to transmute a luminous island like Puerto Rico into a shadowy territory, full of threats. Al encuentro del fuego is a thriller, and a brave reflection on the challenges of adolescence... Helena Sampedro once again demonstrates her craft and her originality." Mayra Montero, author of La tarde que Bobby no bajó a jugar. Tormented between the inexplicable suicide of her grandmother and the disorder of Diogenes syndrome suffered by her mother, who has turned her mansion into a garbage dump, Sofia decides to ask her father for help so that she can finish her studies at a boarding school outside the country. Sofia carries the stigma of being a different girl, extremely intelligent, with a knack for math and not leaving questions unasked. But neither that ability, nor all of her family's money, helps her solve the riddle of her own life in a Puerto Rico where young women are more often missing. Escape seems to be the only way out for Sofia. And in that escape, while a terrible storm looms over the island, he will meet the Flores sisters, Clara, the "maestro", the sinister leader of a cult, and the brothers Javier and Nicole, a former nun who seeks to solve the mystery of these disappearances. Haunted from the beginning of her adventure by an invisible and dark presence, her participation in a mysterious ritual will lead her to search for the truth and discover that the answers were closer than she ever imagined.