Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation...

The Sisters at Our Lady of Mercy convent on the Spanish sierra find their solitude and silence altered when Mother Superior Maria Ines discovers a baby abandoned in a suitcase at the entrance to their retreat.

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.

"A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say 'Slum!' because he could see no more." But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad's capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There's Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build "the thing without a name." There's Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion, and the dreaded Big Foot, the...

In the mountains and mines of Lena, Asturias,1928, young Jose Manuel and Jesus are looking for a mysterious treasure that legend says is within one of the caves that surrounds the town. In Madrid, 1941, an accused murderer disappears on the Eastern front while fighting in the Spanish División Azul. In 2005, Detective Corazón Rodríguez is called in to investigate their disappearances.

Set in 14th century Barcelona, the 80-year construction of the Church of Santa Maria affects the lives of the citizens, those who devoted their lives to building it, and those who were sheltered there.