The Lords of Time

Vitoria, 2019. An epic historic novel set in the Middle Ages, is published with great success using a mysterious pseudonym: Diego Veilaz.

Victoria, 1192. Diago Vela, the legendary count Don Vela, returns to his town after two years on a dangerous mission he received from King Sancho VI “the Wise” of Navarre, and he finds his brother Nagorno married to the woman who was his fiancée, the noble and intriguing Onneca de Maestu.

Unai López de Ayala, Kraken, faces a number of disconcerting deaths that follow a medieval modus operandi. They are identical to the murders described in the novel Los señores del tiempo: a poisoning with the “Spanish fly” -the medieval Viagra-, victims walled in as was done in the “vote of the shadows”, and a “canning in” that consisted of throwing a prisoner into the river who was locked in a barrel together with a rooster, a dog, a cat, and a viper.

The investigations will lead Kraken to the lord of the Nograro tower, a reforced tower house, inhabited without interruption since 1,000 years ago by the firstborn male. But the reverse of so much nobility is the tendency of the lords of the tower to suffer from the multiple identity disorder, a detail that will drag Estíbaliz into a risky love story.

Unai López de Ayala will discover that Los senñores del tiempo has got a lot to do with his own past. And this discovery will change his life and that of his family.