Everything Caelan knows about his world is a lie. A war is brewing. As the crown prince of Erya, it’s only natural that Caelan is sent on a secret diplomatic mission to support one of the kingdom’s allies. With his advisor, his bodyguard, and his best friend as traveling companions, what could go wrong? Everything. Everything goes wrong. Now they are on the run, dodging assassins, setting secret meetings, and even making deals with a sleeping god. So, this is probably a really bad time to cave to feelings he’s been fighting for his best friend. But Drayce has owned his heart for more years than he can count and if he’s going to die, shouldn’t he have just one kiss?

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

"Un trio di scatenate detective per le vie di Milano" - Massimo Picozzi Dentro Milano esistono tante città, e quasi inavvertitamente si passa dall’una all’altra. C’è poi chi sceglie le zone di confine, come i Navigli, a cavallo tra i locali della movida e il quartiere popolare del Giambellino. Proprio da quelle parti Libera – quarantasei anni portati magnificamente – ha trasformato un vecchio casello ferroviario in una casa-bottega, dove si mantiene creando bouquet di nozze. È lì che vive con la figlia Vittoria, giovane agente di polizia, un po’ bacchettona, e la settantenne madre Iole, hippie esuberante, seguace dell’amore libero. In una piovosa giornata di luglio, alla loro porta bussa una donna vestita di nero: indossa un lutto antico per la figlia misteriosamente scomparsa e cerca giustizia. Il caso risale a tanti anni prima e, poiché è rimasto a lungo senza risposta, è stato archiviato. Eppure la vecchia signora non si dà per vinta: all’epoca alcune piste, dice, sono state trascurate, e se si è spinta fino a quel casello è perché spera che la signorina poliziotta possa fare riaprire l’inchiesta. Vittoria, irrigidita nella sua divisa, è piuttosto riluttante, ma sia Libera che Iole hanno molte buone ragioni per gettarsi a capofitto nell’impresa. E così, nel generale scetticismo delle autorità, una singolare équipe di improvvisate investigatrici – a dispetto delle stridenti diversità generazionali e dei molti bisticci che ne seguono – riuscirà a trovare, in modo originale, il bandolo della matassa, approdando a una verità tanto crudele quanto inaspettata.

This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451529305. Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War. It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with "woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the "girl’s book” her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.