The Secret of Lucía Morke
Inés MacPherson

First edition: November 2011

Synopsis
Lucía Morke is the daughter of a Norwegian couple and she spends the afternoons reading Gothic tales to her blind neighbour. However, the letter from a friend who disappeared two years ago is going to change her life forever. In it he tells her to meet him on an empty road in Los Monegros, the scene of many urban legends. One weekend when she is alone, after dyeing her hair black, she sets out on a risky hitchhiking trip into the unknown. However, at the meeting place the only thing she finds is the deserted Hotel Limbo, and, hanging on the door, the compass that she gave him on the day they almost kissed.


About the author:
Inés MacPherson was born in Barcelona in 1982, as she puts it she has been a "book junkie" since she was very young. At the age of 16 she began writing stories that she has since performed as a storyteller, something she has been doing for ten years. With a degree in Philosophy, she worked for two years in a literary agency while she carried on reading classic Gothic horror stories. Freeof the office walls, she has worked as a translator of stories and a writer of self-help material.

The Secret of Lucía Morke is her first novel for young people, and she fills it with the ghosts and the attraction fordarkness that have nourished her world.