Marquis de Velada has many losses behind him. He’s tired of the endless stream of women in his bed. When feelings are muffled by pain and vice, it seems the heart will never come alive again. Luis Ignacio skillfully hides despair behind a mask of irony and cynicism. But one day, in a church, he meets her—the red-haired girl with eyes the color of jade, in which reflects a pain too familiar to him. The stranger disappears as suddenly as she appeared. She leaves behind a trail of scent and an unwanted stirring in his chest. Who is she—phantom, fate, or redemption? And why can’t her image let him go?
Behind the Marquis’s obsession isn’t curiosity, but a desire to obtain what—excitedly and joyfully—makes his heart beat.
This is a story of the meeting between a man who has forgotten how to love and a woman who appears in his destiny as an embodied dream, as a challenge to life, as hope for happiness that you can’t refuse.