Mercedes Pinto Maldonado Books

Her family is built on secrets and lies. Can she confront the truth she's been running from for years? Fifteen years ago, Berta fled from Madrid to London to escape the controlling mother who made her childhood a living nightmare. Now, following her mother's death, she is forced to return and face the ghosts of her unhappy past. But it is not long before she discovers that her own bleak memories are nothing compared to the dark deception lurking in her family. How did her sister's loveless marriage really end? And is the loyal housekeeper really hiding the truth about the strange disappearance of Berta's father? As she searches for facts among the fiction, Berta finds a handful of letters that reveal a story more twisted than she could ever have imagined. And as she starts piecing together the sinister family mysteries that have always plagued her, it soon becomes clear that these dangerous secrets are not confined to the past...

Berta regresa a la casa familiar, donde nunca dese volver, para hacerse cargo de la herencia de su madre, una mujer oscura y controladora que convirti su infancia en un infierno. Asediada por los recuerdos, decide liberarse de los fantasmas del pasado desenredando la madeja de enga os de do a Alberta y su primog nita y devolviendo la libertad a su ltima v ctima, cuyas cartas sin abrir, ocultas en el desv n hasta que da con ellas, le llegan al coraz n. Pero hay quienes no se alegran de la decisi n de Berta y pronto se ve inmersa en un camino de trampas que puede hacer peligrar su vida.