Just before the beautiful empress of Hindustan, Mumtaz Mahal, closed her eyes forever, her husband promised to honour her memory with the most beautiful monument ever built.

In 1930’s Madrid the workers in a smart tea room near the Puerta del Sol smooth down their uniforms at the beginning of a new day. Antonia has been there the longest, although nobody has ever recognised her talents.

What really happened at the party last night? Were there any victims? What is in the box that our boss gave us in secret, asking us not to open it, and which seems to be shaking and making a quiet crying sound?

The necromancers of Idyll Tower are not as the stories tell. Nobody sacrifices maidens or dances with death, they just study books and spells.

Do you know what the soft kiss of a butterfly feels like? Or the toothy kiss of a crocodile? Or what a cow’s kiss is like?

Only someone with the instint for instinct, skill and sense of humour of Empar Moliner could have written a story collection like "I’m Doing All This Because I’m So Scared", a literary jewel that will move and entertain the reader from beginning t