Love in the Darkness The Story of a Modern Love

By Pedro Hugo García Peláez

Times change, love stories are not forever. A romantic crime novel in which love and drama intertwine.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pedro Hugo García Peláez
• Release date: Nov 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370905898

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Love in the Darkness The Story of a Modern Love

By Pedro Hugo García Peláez

Translated By Morwenna Fellows

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© 2017, Pedro Hugo García Peláez

Isaan and Moyna had lived next door to each other since childhood and yet, they did not know each other personally.

There were two years between them and he went to a boy’s school and she to another school that was solely for girls and that was separated by a wall. There was such a vast number of children on either side of the wall that it was unlikely that they would meet, despite being so close. When I say a wall I do not imply it figuratively; the girls’ school was on an upper level, the wall was about ten metres high and the boys’ school was beneath it. They grew up on either side of this wall without meeting.

They even had friends in common, but still they did not meet.

Yunai was one of Isaan’s friends and he had a sister who showed an interest in Isaan, and as she was a friend of Moyna’s she must have told her but Moyna must not have taken any notice. Isaan would be just one more person in the darkness of Madrid in the early seventies, yet for Moyna this must have been the first time that she became aware of Isaan’s existence, but it would not be the last.

In these circumstances it could be said that Isaan and Moyna lived parallel lives; almost bonded, but separated by a wall in time, and almost together in space. Two people can live virtually hand in hand, even ten metres apart, and not see each other. For two people to meet time is essential, for the eyes of two people to cross they must have found each other in space and time. Even though both are born at almost the same time and study almost side by side, they must coincide in both space and time.

Although space is made up of three