The Years in Between

When Pedro moves to a quiet Andalusian town, he expects nothing more than a fresh start. What he finds is a love that will never let him go.

Pedro and Diego have come to Antequera, an hour from Málaga, to keep the books for the local olive co-op. It's meant to be temporary. Then a new neighbor moves into the apartment across the hall: Emilio, a magnetic, unsettling man who never seems to work, never goes out by day, and never takes off his dark glasses.

As Pedro falls under Emilio's spell, strange things begin to happen in the town. People sicken and waste away. Men vanish into the night. And in a ruined school behind a ring of cypresses, a teacher who should have died long ago is still giving lessons.

Haunted by a decades-old curse that the town's oldest families have worked hard to bury, The Years in Between is a dark, sensual and deeply melancholic novel about desire, dependence and the price of loving someone who will never grow old.

For readers of Anne Rice, Sarah Waters and Carlos Ruiz Zafón, this is a gothic love story set under the Spanish sun, where the most frightening thing isn't the monster, but how much you want to stay.

Translated from the Spanish.

About the Author

Jacobo Martín is a writer, composer, and civil engineer, and holds a PhD in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Granada. He has been writing for more than thirty years. The Years in Between was his debut novel.