Donde habita la lealtad
Durii Editorial · Contemporánea · Narrativa · Jóvenes adultos y adultos (+13 años)
Synopsis
Marc D'Alessio has everything success can offer: a thriving company in Rome, a respected name, a life accounted for down to the minute. What he does not have is anyone to share it with. Since his mother's death, he learned not to trust, to keep his distance, to let business fill the space that people once occupied.
One rainy night, walking home, he comes across an abandoned dog — hungry, trembling — in a Roman alleyway. Something in the animal's gaze stops him. Without quite knowing why, he takes him home. He calls him Brandon.
What begins as an impulse becomes the most honest bond Marc has ever known. Brandon asks for nothing, yet gives everything: company through late working nights, calm through days of inner turmoil, and something more unexpected still — an unerring instinct for danger. Every time his closest friend visits, or his partner Alessia comes near, Brandon reacts with a bark of warning that Marc is far too slow to understand.
When the pieces begin to fall into place, Marc uncovers a double betrayal: in business and in love. The company he built through years of effort is being hollowed out from within, and the woman he trusted is part of the deception. Exposing the truth publicly restores his dignity, but costs him nearly everything else.
In the wreckage, Brandon becomes his only fixed point. He is there during the sleepless nights, at his father's funeral, through every moment Marc tries not to give up entirely. And he is there the day a traffic accident puts his life at risk, forcing Marc to decide, without hesitation, that no price is too high to save the one who saved him first.
In the waiting room of the veterinary clinic, Marc meets Elena, the woman who will care for Brandon through his most critical hours. What begins as gratitude slowly becomes the quiet love Marc had believed impossible after so much betrayal.
Donde habita la lealtad is a novel about one man's reconstruction through an animal's unconditional love — about grief, broken trust, and the possibility of beginning again. A story for those who know that sometimes the one who saves your life does not speak your language, yet understands your heart better than anyone.
Machine translation, pending review.
Selling points
- Protagonista canino con una intuición casi sobrenatural que estructura la trama de traición y misterio.
- Ambientación europea itinerante (Roma, Toscana, Alpes, París, Amalfi) con atractivo de novela de viajes.
- El tatuaje de la huella como símbolo recurrente y altamente compartible en redes sociales.
- Giro final de la reencarnación canina que ofrece consuelo real a lectores en duelo por mascotas.
- Capítulos breves ideales para lectura en sesiones cortas y alta legibilidad comercial.
- Conecta directamente con la comunidad global de amantes de perros y el fenómeno 'pet parenting'.
Comparable titles
- Los besos, Manuel Vilas
- A Dog's Purpose, W. Bruce Cameron
- A Dog's Promise, W. Bruce Cameron
Technical data
- ISBN
- 978-84-10075-31-3
- Format
- Softcover
- Pages
- 124
- Dimensions
- 152 × 228 mm
- Weight
- 250 g
- RRP
- €18.00 (VAT included)
- Publication
- 18 September 2025
- Edition
- Edition 1
- Legal deposit
- M-18707-2025
- Language
- es
- Imprint
- Durii Editorial
- Series
- Contemporánea
- Age
- Jóvenes adultos y adultos (+13 años)
- Ebook
- 978-84-10075-32-0 · €8.00
Classification
Novela de sanación emocional · Ficción con protagonismo animal · Romance contemporáneo maduro · Drama familiar y de superación personal
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Distribution: Azeta in Spain · Panoplia de Libros in Latin America · Direct distribution from the publisher
Rights
Translation rights available for all languages.
DONDE HABITA LA LEALTAD (WHERE LOYALTY LIVES) is a heartwarming contemporary novel from Spanish author Marco Antonio Ramos Torres, following the international appetite for redemptive dog stories in the tradition of A Dog's Purpose and Marley & Me. Marc D'Alessio is a wealthy, guarded businessman in Rome who has learned never to trust anyone since losing his mother as a child. One rainy night, he rescues an abandoned dog he names Brandon, unaware that this act will unravel every wall he has built. Brandon has an uncanny instinct: he senses danger before it arrives and reacts every time Marc's business partner or girlfriend approaches, slowly revealing a double betrayal that costs Marc his company, his fortune, and his illusions about love. What remains is Brandon's unconditional loyalty, which carries Marc through grief, a near-fatal accident, and the slow rebuilding of his life, eventually leading him to Elena, the veterinarian who saved his dog and, later, his heart. Written in short, highly readable chapters and set across a postcard trail of Italian and European locations —Rome, Tuscany, the Alps, Paris, the Amalfi Coast— the novel closes with a tender, hopeful twist that reframes loss as transformation rather than ending. This is a commercial, emotionally driven novel positioned for readers of feel-good and pet-loyalty fiction, with strong crossover appeal to the global 'pet parenting' community and to readers seeking comfort after losing an animal companion. Its short chapters, high shareability of key emotional beats, and cinematic European settings make it an attractive property for both foreign-language print rights and screen adaptation as a feel-good streaming film. Durii Editorial is seeking translation rights partners in markets with proven appetite for dog-centered emotional fiction, particularly English, Italian, German, and Portuguese language territories.
Marco Antonio Ramos Torres
Sevilla · 1992
Marco Antonio, known on social media as M.A.Torres, is a Seville-born writer who has built a following of thousands of readers with his deeply reflective work. At 32, he has found a way to turn complex emotions into words that reach people when they need them most. His books — «Versos sin armadura» (2021) and «Sonriviviendo» (2022) — grow from a desire to offer comfort and light to those going through dark times. His writing moves between the everyday and the profound, and it tends to stay with readers long after they put it down.
Machine translation, pending review.
