Death in the Valencian Dust: Hope and heartache trapped beneath Spain's fiery surface of calm and chaos

By Caroline Angus Baker

Spain: September, 1975 - After 39 years as dictator, Francisco Franco is dying, but his parting words to the nation are leaving a bitter legacy. Jaime Morales, brother-in-law and sword handler for Spain's greatest bullfighter, Paco Beltr?n, finds himself caught up with a young Basque woman named Alazne, who seeks political change with plans of violence. Executions are handed down, and Spain collapses into turmoil in the shadow of their leader's death and the crowning of a new king. Jaime, Alazne and entire Morales family have to face who they are and what they believe...It's 2014 and the final season for Spain's favourite celebrity bullfighter, Cayetano Beltr?n Morales. Guided by his father Paco and Uncle Jaime, Cayetano is reluctant to let go of his magnificent career. His wife, Luna Montgomery, has plans as she transitions from mother of the couple's four children to leader of the Beltr?n family, while fighting Spain's 'pact of forgetting'. Cayetano's sister, Sof?a, has rising political ambitions in Valencia as Spain crowns a new king. The final ghosts of Escondrijo, Luna's Valencian farm, can finally speak the truth. But the Beltr?n Morales family must at last recognise their identity, where they sit in Spain's turbulent present, and their potentially fractured future.Bodies need to be laid to rest, truths must be acknowledged, and destinies are up in the air as Luna Montgomery finds her long-awaited place in her Spanish family. But death still lurks in the Valencian mountains...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1492958107
• ISBN13: 9781492958109
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"