The Anticausal Trilogy · Book I
Elcano and the Scepter of Priam
Time keeps its debts
Chloe Santillana was twenty-five, with a life that let itself drift — until an impossible document crossed her path: the lost record of an interrogation of Juan Sebastián Elcano, the first captain ever to sail around the world, which answered — five hundred years early — with her name.
"It will be three men led by a woman, Chloe Santillana."
With Gael, Toñito and the enigmatic Antonio, Chloe follows the trail of the Pignora Imperii — the relics that secretly guaranteed the power of Rome — from the taverns of Valladolid to the churches of the Cantabrian coast and the Merindades of Burgos. Every coincidence hides a causality. Every discovery brings her closer to the scepter of Priam, the object that keeps time.
And time, when it lets itself be watched, always collects its price.