Laura K. Roma

He’s a foreigner. She hates all foreigners. And fate has seen to it that they end up sharing a landing.

Moving to Barcelona was never part of his plans. Overwhelmed by suffocating guilt, he decides to fulfil a dream that isn’t his own and rent a flat near his new business. What he didn’t expect was that his neighbour would be determined to make his life a living hell, let alone that giving her a taste of her own medicine would be the only thing that would allow him to feel anything again.

But she’s not having an easy time of it either. Trapped in a life she never wanted, she chooses to leave it all behind and fight for her dream of becoming a haute cuisine chef when grief and anger overwhelm her. Meanwhile, she watches as the neighbourhood where she grew up withers away. She feels that mass tourism has taken everything from her: the Barcelona she knows, the places she used to visit with the person she loved most in the world, her dream restaurant and even the flat she was going to live in.

What neither of them realises is that they share far more than they think: a pain that sweeps away everything they once were and consumes them from within. And aren’t anger and guilt simply two sides of the same coin?