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The Vetrov name comes with expectation. My role in this world is simple: do as Father asks and live my life how he planned it. My future is already written: run the empire. Old Values. Old Rule. Old Money. Until her. Everything I do lacks purpose. Everything I do is empty. Women. Money. Power. It meant nothing. Until her. When the Volkov rose showed up at my home a disgraced package, hand-delivered by a Vasiliev prince, I began paving my own path. I vowed to make her bloom once more. She consumed me. Her. Her. Her. But you can’t love a rose and expect not to be damaged by her thorns. She...

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...

Ni callarlo ni decirlo. Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza Fragmento de la obra Jornada primera (Salga Don Juan de Ayala, pensativo y paseándose por el tablado, y Gonzalo, su criado, detrás de él, mirando del mismo modo. Y después de haber dado una vuelta al tablado y dicho la primera copla, tírele de la capa y diga las demás.) Gonzalo: [Aparte.] (¿Hay suspensión más extraña? ¿Hay amor tan enfadoso? Ea, embisto; que es forzoso que se empiece la maraña.) ¡Ah señor! ¡Qué embelesado se está sin oír ni hablar! ¡El diablo puede esperar lo que se dice un callado! Si es que hacer por lo...

Discovered by Martha Divine in the backstreets of San Juan, picking over garbage, drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the listener, a fifteen year old hustler is transformed into Sirena Selena, a diva whose uncanny beauty and irrisistable voice will be their ticket to fame and fortune. Auditioning for one of the luxury hotels in the Dominican Republic, Selena casts her spell over Hugo Graubel, one of the hotel's rich investors. Graubel is a powerful man in the Republic, married with children. Silena, determined to escape the poverty and abuse s/he suffered as a child,...