One Thousand Forbidden Kisses

Sonsoles Ónega weaves an unforgettable love story whose main characters, a woman marked by loss and a priest in crisis, must face up to their greatest obstacle: the force of their passion. The acclaimed journalist and author uses the chance meeting of these two people as a match to spark the love that will mark their lives. In agile prose filled with sensitivity, Sonsoles Ónega has built a magnificent novel of passions and inner struggles, with flesh-and-blood characters who must choose between accepting imposed norms and fighting to make an impossible love reality.   

Costanza is a successful lawyer who works in a prestigious office in Madrid. 40 years old, recently separated from her husband, she is tormented by the loss of her six-year-old daughter and struggles under the weight of a family secret. Mauro is a priest from Madrid who returns home after several years in Rome to work with the archbishop. A personal tragedy from the past pushes him to turn his life over to God as a way of expiating the guilt that is consuming him. The love the two of them shared in the past seems to have gone dormant until a chance encounter on Gran Vía in Madrid brings their destinies together, making clear that the passion that inflamed their lives twenty years ago is still breathing. Is this meeting a sign of fate giving them another chance? Or is it time for them to put their principles and values to the test.