Mi amor en tus manos

Isabelle Catherine Hutting likes to spend time in the library before going to the dance hall in search of a husband. When she finds out that a space opened up in the house in town for single women, she decides to set aside her marriage plans. She will first have to speak to Marcus, the Duke of Hart, owner of the property, in order to move in. He turns out to be the most attractive man she has ever seen . He is immediately attracted to her, but he is not interested in relationships. An old curse weighs heavy on his mind that no duke in his family will live long enough to see an heir born....

Necesitaba ser así: "Me di cuenta, como tantas veces me la había dado, de que no era buena. De que me había propuesto conquistar a Arturo de la forma que fuera, y ello, aunque parezca extraño, me producía una íntima vergüenza. Pero también sabía que pasara lo que pasara y cayera quien cayera, mi decisión era firme. Y si lo era, me decía para consolarme y quizá disculparme, que consideraba que a Salomé no iba a hacerle demasiado daño y en cambio, aparte vanidad, creía que a Arturo le haría un gran bien."

December, 2004. Gumaro de Dios kills the time with El Peln. The heat is suffocating, the mosquitoes hum. The afternoon breaks out and sometime in the night a voice whispers in the Cannibal's ear. The residents of the Mayan Riviera find out about it at dawn. The rumor that travels across the streets freezes blood and skin of one person after another. He scratched the bones and even used the viscera, with which he prepared an exquisite broth. The trial is succinct. Nobody wants to listen to the Cannibal. He is a butcher, a dangerous criminal, a repellent being. Alejandro Almazn approaches...

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