**Featured Story on Wattpad Crime & Mystery** ~Inspired by a true case~ Seven-year-old Eric Staener once had a happy childhood. His parents that loved and guided him along, his elementary friends who always enjoyed his company, and his siblings in which looked up to him. He was his usual friendly, young, innocent self; until the day he is taken away. Taken away by a stranger. As the years he grows in captivity, he endures many struggles and fights that come from within. But as soon as his captor takes another boy, the now teenage Eric manages to gather up all his strength, taking the young boy with him, and finally escaping the horror he has lived in for the past eight years. (Title picture does not belong to me.)

A novel set in Cordoba X century during the Umayyad dynasty. Among historical figures such as Al-Mansur (Almanzor) and the Sultana Subh or Aurora, using her Latin name, mingle fictional characters interwoven with historical facts that will make you go through loves, betrayals, emotions, and the dangers of Muslim splendor of time during the Islamic conquest of Hispania in century X. Two plots run in parallel; the first involves the attempt to rescue the power of Hisham II, overshadowed by Al-Mansur's (Almanzor) ambition, and the second in the intricacies of the famous Al-Zahara Palace Library when the discovery of a manuscript of the Koran can change the destiny of Islam and its faithful. The Sierra de Guadarrama is a mountain range of the Central System (mountain range of the center of the Iberian Peninsula) and was south of this chain of mountains that stood the Muslim domains based in Cordoba. As Wattpad does not allow the automatic inclusion of footnotes, I have informed at the end of each chapter the explanation of a typical ancient expression or personage that can generate doubts. So check the end of each chapter to see if your doubt is explained there. According to WattPad rules, it is classified as an adult because it involves one sex scene, which is not described explicitly, and contains episodes of violence. It does not contain pornography. Translation by the author. Cover art by Camila Rodrigues: (https://www.wattpad.com/user/CapistaCamila)