“Javier Castillo’s work grips readers from the very first page.”
——El País

★The author’s books have sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide and been translated into 24 languages.
★Amazon #1 in Women Detectives Mysteries.

EMOTIONAL – DISTURBING – ENIGMATIC – POWERFUL
WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN BEFORE WE OPEN OUR EYES?

A crime with no answer.
Two siblings hungry to celebrate life.
What happened to Laura Ardoz?

Tenerife, 2019. Mario and Laura Ardoz—identical twins—fly to the Canary Islands: he has just completed his final chemo session; she is sure this trip will let them start over after cancer. But a relapse lands Mario in hospital for two days. When he is discharged, his sister has vanished and her phone places her in a lava-scarred wasteland. A race-against-the-clock search begins, while fire seems to crack open beneath their feet.

Javier Castillo—global phenomenon with more than 2,500,000 copies sold—once again shakes the foundations of the thriller genre with an inspiring, transcendent novel: a tale of mystery, love and pain that jolts us awake and hurls us breathlessly into a journey that asks what footprints we leave on others.

Can death rekindle the flame of our life?

Javier Castillo grew up in Málaga and holds a degree in Business and a master’s in Management from ESCP Europe. His debut, The Day Sanity Was Lost (Suma), became a global phenomenon: translated into 15 languages, sold in more than 60 countries and optioned for television. The streak continued with The Day Love Was Lost and Everything That Happened with Miranda Huff, both celebrated by critics and readers alike. The Snow Girl was Spain’s most-read novel during the 2020 lockdown and shot to #1 on Netflix in 2023; Season 2 adapts his follow-up thriller, The Soul Game. His sixth novel, The Glass Cuckoo, was released in the U.S. and U.K., while The Crack of Silence opened a new chapter in his career, confirming him as one of the leading voices in contemporary suspense. In his eighth thriller, The Whisper of Fire, Castillo sets his story in Spain for the first time—on the volcanic islands of the Canaries—and raises the stakes even higher.