All Aura Reyes needs now is to stay alive for another ten minutes. And it won’t be easy. There’s one of her against four others, stronger than her, and, cornered in a prison yard, she has never been good at defending herself. Or maybe she can, since Aura has to get her daughters back. And her friends, too. Which is why she has dreamed up a plan that starts in ten minutes. So, no, she has no intention of dying today. A new challenge awaits outside the prison: she’ll have to reckon with the Dorrs, a powerful family with many secrets, and its last heir, Irma, happens to run a mysterious club. Plus, there’s a precious briefcase to get back. What’s inside she doesn’t know, but whatever it is, it’s potentially explosive. An impossible plan. And a never-ending escape, given that getting caught is not an option.

Juan Gómez-Jurado is a reporter for La Voz de Galicia and ABC, and a novelist whose works have been translated into forty languages. In 2008, his novel The Traitor’s Emblem (Plaza & Janés) won the prestigious Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja Award, and his 2011 Contract with God (Circulo de lectores) won two awards at the International Latino Book Awards. The trilogy made up of Red Queen, The Black Wolf, and White King was wildly popular, with over three million copies sold, and cemented his reputation as the best-selling Spanish thriller writer ever, as well as one of the best exponents of the genre on the international level. The Prime Video 2024 series Red Queen and Scar are based on Gómez-Jurado’s novels.