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This is a sweeping historical novel that traces the elegant yet tragic journey of Ricardo and Mercedes, an aristocratic couple bound by duty but united by love. Married on the very day the ocean liner Lapland was launched in Belfast in 1908-unknowingly tying their fates to a vessel that would later become their salvation-they live a life of splendor and affection in early 20th-century Spain.
Their world is filled with opera and soirées, Parisian fashion, political salons, and travels to Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, and the heart of Paris. Ricardo, a cultured and visionary man with dreams of bringing modern architecture to Almería, plans to visit New York to study its rising skyscrapers-symbols of a bold future he hopes to replicate at home.
On April 10, 1912, they board the RMS Titanic in Southampton, accompanied by family and staff, unaware that the luxury surrounding them is a prelude to unspeakable loss. When the great ship sinks into the icy Atlantic, their lives-and those of everyone on board-are changed forever.
What follows is a poignant odyssey of survival aboard the Carpathia, a sorrowful return to Europe on the very ship launched the day of their wedding, and a reckoning with grief that stretches from Manhattan's skyline to the olive groves of Andalusia.
Told with emotional depth and historical accuracy, this novel explores love, loss, resilience, and the invisible threads of fate that connect lives across oceans and time. Anchored in real events and rich with intimate detail, Blue Sky, Titanic is both a tribute to those lost aboard the Titanic and a celebration of those who carried their memories ashore.