Romantic suspense set against the vivid streets and history of Málaga, Spain
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“Please come! I need you. — Oliver”
When a desperately worded postcard summons eighteen-year-old Sara Gordon to Málaga, she arrives to find that her childhood friend did not greet her. Instead, two complete strangers came to her café table and claimed her friend had sent them to take her to him. She does not believe them.
She flees, running straight into the path of Spanish colonel Gil Loudoun, the formidable head of the local Guardia Civil. The moment he sees her, a long-buried trauma detonates a memory he has spent decades forcing into silence.
Caught between her friend’s disastrous mistakes and a man whose past erupts with startling force, Sara is drawn into a web of danger, memory, and an emotional reckoning of southern Spain. Set against the vivid streets and history of a long-lived aristocratic family, Spanish Sonata blends psychological suspense, slow-burn tension, and a collision of two lives marked by loss.
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Málaga, Spain — the Russian Mafiya is closing in.
The local Russian Mafiya is pursuing Celia Ross, only child of Henry Ross, financial genius. Ross is about to embark on a very dangerous mission to eliminate the world’s arch criminal — an Evil Genius, an unknown spectre controlling the world’s major crime organizations.
Ross fears he might not come back, but his greatest concern is that EG will use Celia to force him to surrender. He convinces Guardia Civil captain Salvador Pérez not only to protect his big-hearted daughter, but to marry her.
Salvador balks. Still haunting him is the treacherous woman he had wanted to marry — who betrayed him and his cousin, and tried to kill his cousin’s fiancée. Enraged by the treachery, he swore off women. But Ross’s dilemma is so acute that Salvador finally gives in when he understands the certain danger coming Celia’s way.
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Gwen Burney conjures things and heals people. Her mother disapproves.
When the press notice Gwen’s strangeness, her mother sends her off to America — then walks away. Feeling betrayed, Gwen cuts her mother off, she thinks forever.
Eight years on, as archaeologist Dr. Gwen Burney leaves the Olympic National Forest with her students, she’s attacked by two men. Minutes later, her dog tears out of the forest gate and chases Commander Ian Loudoun’s pickup until he stops to investigate.
A phone call from Scotland informs Gwen her mother has been shot — yes, she is distressed — and she mentally, emotionally shuts down. Ian fears for her, because he suspects she is not what she seems. He pushes her to face her past. As she confronts her demons, she discovers that what she had believed was her mother’s betrayal was something else: an act of love and self-sacrifice.
Then Ian declares his love…
Buy on AmazonThese stories unfold in Málaga, on Spain’s sun-drenched Costa del Sol — a city layered with nearly three thousand years of history. Phoenician traders, Roman theatres, and the Moorish fortress of the Alcazaba all left their mark on its streets.
It is against this backdrop — the harbor, the promenades, the ancient stones — that pd Norman’s characters fall into danger, memory, and love.
pd Norman writes romantic suspense with deep roots in the history and streets of southern Spain — stories where long-buried pasts collide with present danger, and love arrives when it is least convenient.