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After her boyfriend attacks her in Madrid, Esmi, a young computer programmer, seeks refuge with her grandparents in their remote village in Extremadura, Spain. The war-scarred village is a tangle of secrets, and Esmi becomes entwined in her family's tortured history.“The wind coursed through the nearly deserted village, scouring the town with its own dust. Black dresses and black stockings flapped on clotheslines, and at the village’s heart, the empty plaza hunkered down around a graceless fountain—bone-dry and bullet-pocked.”On her first night, unable to sleep, Esmi dismisses the villagers’ warnings of dangers both earthly and supernatural and wanders into the town’s cramped, dusty plaza. There by the fountain, bullet-scarred from the Spanish Civil War, she meets and is drawn to a mysterious stranger, Iban. In the following days Esmi’s grandfather, struggling with his own demons from the war, grows increasingly hostile towards Esmi. Alone and friendless, she turns to Iban for solace, but when one of the villagers is found dead, the superstitious housekeeper warns Esmi that the death is unnatural—the act of a vampire—and she accuses Iban. Esmi must decide what to believe and whom to trust. Her life depends on it. 

The Subwhative? will help you hone your Spanish subjunctive skills.Get the hang of this fundamental, must-have structure and enhance your brain health, language fluency and ability to connect with Spanish speakers. In The Subwhative? you will practice how to form the subjunctive, and then, step by step, learn how to use those forms The Subwhative? features: • Short, clear explanations • More than 200 exercises • Varied activities, including 11 puzzles • Ample, built-in review • Sections on related grammar topics • Plenty of example sentences • An extensive answer key What readers say: "If you want to really understand the subjunctive, this book is for you! Very thorough and detailed with plenty of practice exercises but enough imaginative ones thrown in to keep it interesting. Also frequent review exercises help keep you from forgetting." Margie A., McMinnville, OR "This book has really helped me sort out the different ways to use subjunctive! It reviews, and then RE-reviews, every situation in which the subjunctive is used in Spanish, so that I really think I'm going to master this tricky tense." Nancy H., Portland, OR "A book for logically thinking adults." Loretta M., Oregon City, OR