There are no shortcuts in life. Elizabeth Harden is a young girl from Newport, WA, daughter of a protestant priest and orphan mother. Her life is turned upside down by meeting Mr Michael Dawson, biology teacher at the Seattle University. With him, an unusual and mysterious young man, she will experience the impossible love, the sacrifice, the hope, the courage to go up One step from Hell. Halfway between an urban fantasy and a romantic paranormal thriller, leads the reader to a complex world, through the experiences of a young girl forced to revise all her certainty. He touched my emotions at 360° trafantasiaerealtà Instagram I recommend it to anyone who wants to live a story not at all banal and not at all equal to others already read and reread bookslover_84 Instagram "A book different from the usual. That upsets all the cards on the table". Sunset_books_reading Instagram "It is not easy to complete a work of these proportions, and above all to keep it homogeneous from the first to the last page". Jury of XXXIV Italo Calvino Award This book is AI free. No machine should replace art or human sensitivity. Sandra Conti