Libros de Orson Scott Card (3 libros)

In an alternate version of frontier America, young Alvin is the seventh son of a seventh son, and such a birth is powerful magic. Yet even in the loving safety of his home, dark forces reach out to destroy him.

Llega la decimotercera entrega de la «Saga de Ender», esperada continuación de La sombra del gigante, una mirada positiva a la voluntad de la humanidad para sobrevivir. Al final de La sombra del gigante, Bean Delphiki huía hacia las estrellas con tres de sus hijos, los mismos que comparten con él unos genes que otorgan tanto una inteligencia extraordinaria como la condena a una vida corta y físicamente cruel. Ahora, la extrema velocidad de este viaje parece dar a las generaciones de científicos de la Tierra más tiempo para buscar una cura. Sin embargo, no servirá de nada. Todos...

In a house he is restoring, builder Don Lark meets a woman squatter who turns out to be a ghost. But Sylvie Delaney does not realize she is a ghost, thinking she is alive. Lark learns she was murdered and goes searching for the killer. As he sinks his teeth into his new project, Lark's new neighborhood starts to work its charms on him. He strikes up a romance with the real estate agent who sold him the house. His neighbors, two charming, chatty old ladies, ply him endlessly with delicious Southern cooking. Even Sylvie, the squatter Lark was once desperate to evict from the old house, is now...