★ A novel inspired by real events.(Soon to be a TV series)
[Link to Spanish TV report about the book:
https://youtu.be/TSj23bIOYUg?si=z0XifDpHPbxZf_u6]

Gerónima López de la Cruz, the author's great-grandmother, was one of the more than 650,000 "sons of vice", bastards abandoned in the Inclusa (home for unwed mothers) of Madrid.

In Madrid at the end of the 19th century, life goes by without apparent worries for the López de Ulloa family, a wealthy bourgeois family, until the firstborn, Águeda, becomes pregnant with an illegitimate daughter. The future grandmother, Roberta de Ulloa y Rivera, will concoct a whole web of lies to hide the "shameful" existence of Gerónima, and will not hesitate to take the deception to its ultimate consequences.

Famous personalities, such as the founder of the Spanish Red Cross, Nicasio Landa; the former mayor of Madrid, José Osorio y Silva, and his wife, Sofia Troubetzkoy; the poet José Martí, the writer Emilia Pardo-Bazán, the pediatrician Mariano Benavente or the Swiss philanthropist Henry Dunant, are part of this portrait of the Spain of the time and its people, whose yearnings, fears and desires seem to combine beyond the different social classes.

A vivid reflection of so many stories that, even today, remain anonymous.

Soraya Romero Hernández (Madrid, 1983) is a Spanish-Swiss journalist who is passionate about writing, radio and her hometown. Since 2015 she has been directing and presenting the program Enlazados on Radio Rabe (Bern), a reference for the Spanish-speaking community in Switzerland. She has worked as a journalist in various media (Europa Press, Grammy Magazine, CNS Radio) and has been a contributor to No es un día cualquiera, on RNE. She has published two children's books: Pi&Palala and Lorenzo tiene superpoderes. Las semillas del silencio is her first novel.