Mar abierta / Open sea
Novel , 2016
Grijalbo
A passionate romance cut short by the English Civil War
Spain, 1639. When Len de Montemayor’s family is killed, she thinks her life is over . Until an aristocratic family rescues her. Len finds a soulmate in their son Piers, and as they grow up together, their friendship becomes a love so intense that it comes with promise: that it will last forever. But with the outbreak of civil war, a dutiful Piers disappears from Len’s life like a ghost. When Len hears that Piers has drowned at sea, she nearly goes mad with grief. But Piers is very much alive, and when he does return, he finds his home a burned shell of its former glory, his family slaughtered, and every trace of Len gone. Thinking that she died in the fire that killed his family, Piers is heartbroken and escapes to the same place that divided them—the sea.Driven apart by fate, Len and Piers discover that the sea that separated them may also be the key to reuniting them.
A stirring adventure of high seas piracy, betrayal and war, Open Sea is above all, an epic novel of true love.