La Herencia / Inheritance: The Lost Bride - (La Maldición de las Siete Novias) by Nora Roberts (Paperback)

About the Book

"Graphic designer Sonya MacTavish is stunned to learn that her late father had a twin he never knew about--and that her newly discovered uncle, Collin Poole, has left her almost everything he owned, including a majestic Victorian house on the Maine coast, which the will stipulates she must live in it for at least three years. Her engagement recently broken, she sets off to find out why the boys were separated at birth-and why it was all kept secret until a genealogy website brought it to light. Trey, the young lawyer who greets her at the sprawling clifftop manor, notes Sonya's unease-and acknowledges that yes, the place is haunted...but just a little. Sure enough, Sonya finds objects moved and music playing out of nowhere. She sees a painting by her father inexplicably hanging in her deceased uncle's office, and a portrait of a woman named Astrid, whom the lawyer refers to as "the first lost bride." It's becoming clear that Sonya has inherited far more than a house. She has inherited a centuries-old curse, and a puzzle to be solved if there is any hope of breaking it"--

Book Synopsis

Siete novias muertas, una mansión hechizada llena de fantasmas y una maldición de dos siglos. Nora Roberts deslumbra en una nueva trilogía llena de magia y amor verdadero.

Sonya recibe la noticia de que su difunto padre tenía un hermano gemelo poco después de romper su compromiso matrimonial y perder su trabajo, así que, cuando descubre que su tío desconocido le ha dejado en herencia una mansión victoriana en la costa de Maine, decide instalarse en ella para descubrir por qué los niños fueron separados al nacer y la razón por la que todo se mantuvo en secreto.

La joven no tarda en darse cuenta de que en la casa ocurren cosas muy extrañas. Trey, el abogado amigo de la familia que la ayuda a instalarse, le confirma que el lugar está embrujado y le habla de Astrid, «la primera novia perdida», cuyo retrato decora el despacho de su tío. Sonya también ha heredado una maldición centenaria y un enigma que debe resolver para romperla.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Inheritance is the first in The Lost Bride Trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts―a tale of tragedies, loves found and lost, and a family haunted for generations.

1806: Astrid Poole sits in her bridal clothes, overwhelmed with happiness. But before her marriage can be consummated, she is murdered, and the circle of gold torn from her finger. Her last words are a promise to Collin never to leave him...

Graphic designer Sonya MacTavish is stunned to learn that her late father had a twin he never knew about―and that her newly discovered uncle, Collin Poole, has left her almost everything he owned, including a majestic Victorian house on the Maine coast, which the will stipulates she must live in it for at least three years. Her engagement recently broken, she sets off to find out why the boys were separated at birth―and why it was all kept secret until a genealogy website brought it to light.

Trey, the young lawyer who greets her at the sprawling clifftop manor, notes Sonya's unease―and acknowledges that yes, the place is haunted...but just a little. Sure enough, Sonya finds objects moved and music playing out of nowhere. She sees a painting by her father inexplicably hanging in her deceased uncle's office, and a portrait of a woman named Astrid, whom the lawyer refers to as "the first lost bride." It's becoming clear that Sonya has inherited far more than a house. She has inherited a centuries-old curse, and a puzzle to be solved if there is any hope of breaking it...

About the Author

Nora Roberts, la autora número 1 en ventas de The New York Times y «la escritora favorita de los Estados Unidos», como la describió la revista The New Yorker, comentó en una ocasión: «Yo no escribo sobre Cenicientas que esperan sentadas a que venga a salvarlas su príncipe azul. Ellas se bastan y se sobran para salir adelante solas. El "príncipe" es como la paga extra, un complemento, algo más... pero no la única respuesta a sus problemas».

Más de quinientos millones de ejemplares impresos de sus libros avalan la complicidad que Nora Roberts consigue establecer con mujeres de todo el mundo. El éxito de sus novelas es indudable, y quienes la leen una vez, repiten. Sabe hablar a las mujeres de hoy sobre sí mismas: sus lectoras son profesionales, fuertes e independientes, como los personajes que crea en sus libros, y sus historias llegan a un público femenino muy amplio porque son mucho más que novelas románticas.

Las cifras son fenomenales: Nora Roberts ha escrito más de 180 novelas que se publican en 34 países, se venden unas 27 novelas suyas cada minuto y 59 han debutado en la primera semana de ventas en el codiciado número 1 de The New York Times.