Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
In the shadows of a stagnant Brooklyn brownstone, twenty-three-year-old Amara is a ghost in her own life, a 'Reliable One' anchored by a leaden void of grief since her father’s death. While she hides behind academic spreadsheets and the red-inked invoices of her family’s failing restaurant, the walls are closing in on three generations of women bound by shared trauma.Everything shatters when Elias, a chaotic and vibrant new neighbor, bursts through the door with a grand piano and an unnerving knowledge of her secrets. He doesn’t just fix the plumbing; he dismantles Amara’s carefully constructed defenses, forcing her to face a terrifying reality: the 'safe' silence she has cultivated is actually a slow death. As Elias pushes the family toward a 'marketing pivot' and a 'riot' of color, Amara uncovers a psychological thriller within his own optimism-a suspicion that the man resurrecting her world is himself a flickering candle in a gale.Amidst the friction of burgeoning hope and marrow-deep resentment, Amara must decide if she can trust the light he offers. Is Elias a life raft sent to save them, or is he merely teaching her to dance on the thin ice of a tragedy that hasn’t finished breaking?
