Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
BODY and SOULWar changes borders and governments. It turns drawing rooms into command posts, country roads into escape routes, and ordinary people into heroes, traitors, survivors, and ghosts.And sometimes, it changes love beyond recognition.Lucinda enters the underground with the instincts of a woman who has spent her life observing more than she reveals. Intelligent, composed, and far more capable than anyone might suspect.Before the war rearranged the world, Lucinda and Dash seemed to be part of a glittering life people imagine will last forever. They were charming. Beautiful. Effortlessly social. They knew how to inhabit elegant rooms, and how to play the part of the enviably happy couple beyond convincingly.Dash is everything that makes such a life possible: handsome, wealthy, spirited, affectionate, and unfailingly kind. But war doesn’t respect beautiful arrangements.When Dash is gravely injured, the man who returns to consciousness is not the man Lucinda knew. A traumatic brain injury changes him in ways that are bewildering, frightening, and impossible to predict. His temperament shifts. His judgment falters. Gentleness becomes unreliable.Lucinda can’t abandon Dash because loving him has become difficult. Nor can she trust his unsupervised discretion with secrets.Around them, families do what families do: interfere, protect, blame, hope, deny, and search desperately for scapegoats to hold responsible. Lucinda’s silence is not coldness. It is protection.She protects people whose names may never appear in history books, men and women who might have been only peripherally involved in operations that could cost lives long after the immediate danger has passed. She understands moral responsibility.Never complain. Never explain.Patient, perceptive Toby does not demand that she choose him. He does not exploit Dash’s injury or treat another man’s tragedy as his opportunity.And he falls hopelessly in love with Lucinda.But he also understands that war creates its own morality of disclosure and chooses to trust.Toby offers a life Lucinda dare not imagine: a future free of secrecy, performance, obligation, or the constant expectation of catastrophe. There will still be kitchens and family gatherings. There will be moments when the mention of Paris can summon an entire lost world.Set against the upheaval of World War II and its aftermath, Body and Soul is Book One in the series, Mood Indigo, a sweeping psychological wartime novel about courage, secrecy, traumatic injury, loyalty, and the forms love takes when ordinary romantic rules no longer apply.It is a story about a woman surrounded by men who underestimate neither her intelligence nor her strength-and about the very different ways those men love her.It is about a wounded young man longing to do the right thing.A steadfast man willing to wait without coercion.A woman who refuses to confuse love with helplessness.Beautiful, suspenseful, psychologically acute, and deeply romantic, Body and Soul explores the space between the life we promise to live and the life history actually gives us.
