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Una dama en juego
1913. The great European powers are taking sides in what seems an inevitable war. A young Spanish woman, Isabel de Alsasua, is the new arrival in the countyshire of Brunstriech - here, at the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, she starts a new life under the tutelage of her aunt. It is a life more turbulent than she could have ever imagined. During her journey she grows to learn that someone trying to get hold of a strange book she herself unknowingly carries, a little red book with fascinating Sanskrit letters. Soon she will be drawn into a strange game of seduction between two brothers: Lars, the charming extrovert, and Karel, a quiet and mysterious man. In a place that is inhabited by strange characters and where nothing is what it seems, Isabel keeps her own and surprising secret...