Frank Carlson Library

Mauro Larrea's fortune, the result of years of hardship and toil, comes crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event. Swamped by debt and uncertainty, he gambles the last of his money in a daring play that wins him an abandoned house and a vineyard an ocean away. Mauro travels to Andalusia de Jerez in Spain with every intention of selling the property and returning to Mexico. That is, until he meets the unsettling Soledad Montalvo, the wife of...

On Spain's Costa Brava, passion and intrigue are everywhere, especially in the hearts of those who dwell there. As the dictator Franco teeters on the edge of overthrow, two couples are entwined. One is a husband and wife bored with the existence they have drifted into, the other a passionate, combative pair who relish every moment of life. Into this potent mix comes a young American seeking his missing lover, bringing a shadow of danger into the machinations...

Reeling from a broken engagement, adopted 19-year-old Menina Walker flees to Spain to bury her misery by writing her overdue college thesis on a 16th century Spanish artist. When she discovers that a tiny swallow in the artist's painting is the same one on a medallion that is Menina's only link to her birth family, Menina digs deeper into the swallow's significance and uncovers an adventure involving orphans sent to the New World after the Spanish...

Issie returns to El Caballo Danza Magnifico determined to bring her colt Storm back home, but first she must master horsemanship with stallion Angel to prove herself to the best riders in Spain.

"Tara Richards was just a girl when she lost her mother. Years later when Tara receives a letter from a London solicitor its contents shake her to the core. Someone has left her a key to a safe deposit box. In the box lies an object that will change everything Tara thought she knew and lead her on a journey to deepest Spain in search of the answers that have haunted her for forty years. Violet Skye regrets her decision to travel abroad leaving her...

They were united by a common hatred for one man, and brought together by a passion that neither one was expecting. Beautiful, headstrong Pilar Sandoval y Serna is desperate to escape the restrictive tyranny of her evil stepfather, Don Esteban. She is willing to forfeit everything for a chance at freedom. In her desperation, she turns to El Leon, a brooding nobleman impoverished by the malignant power of Don Esteban. Sharing their grudge, they enter...

"Adjusting to the death of his wife hasn't been easy on Baxter Shaw--or on their eight-year-old daughter, Mia. Baxter has left his band and abandoned his dreams to focus on being a single father, but it's not enough: Mia's exhibiting escalating behavioral problems. And neither has been able to face the past head-on...until the past reaches out to them. After surprising results from a DNA test, Baxter and Mia journey to southeastern Spain to connect...

A fictionalized retelling of how Isabel and her brother Alfonso went to live with their half-brother, King Henry of Spain. Young Isabel loves her peaceful life. But when the king summons her and her brother, Alfonso, to live with him, Isabel knows they have no choice but to go. She is worried because the king's way of life is very different -- what if she and her brother don't fit in? Then the king's men accuse Alfonso of treason, and Isabel knows...

Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere y su amigo Ferm�in, los h�eroes de La Sombra del Viento, regresan de nuevo a la aventura para afrontar el mayor desaf�io de sus vidas. Justo cuando todo empezaba a sonre�irles, un inquietante personaje visita la librer�ia de Sempere y amenaza con desvelar un terrible secreto que lleva enterrado m�as de dos d�ecadas en la oscura memoria de la ciudad. Al conocer la verdad, Daniel comprender�a que su destino...