Accompanying your mother to a pastoral visit may not seem like the most exciting way to spend an afternoon, but everything changes when you meet a fascinating woman who could determine the course of your life. Who said prayer afternoons in 1923 had to be boring? Sometimes you have to take risks to discover what really matters, even if that means inventing an insurance company during Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship. But if that helps uncover what happened to Néstor, a mystery that still haunts the woman who has captivated you, then it’s worth taking the risk. Breaking the rules seems to be the only way to unravel the truth behind that fateful day in July during the Annual disaster, but in doing so, you discover feelings you never thought possible in yourself and that society despises. Amid the chaos, the attraction to that woman only grows stronger, leading you down a path full of danger, adventure, and perhaps love. Las alsacianas is the author’s foray into historical fiction, drawing on one of the most traumatic events of the Rif War. It tells the story of love and empowerment of the protagonists, Almudena and Matilde, who will face all obstacles with cunning and boldness to uncover the truth. A story shaped like a mystery novel where the why matters more than the how or the who.