At the end of the 1920s, twin sisters Estrella and Alma de Zuloaga inherit a supernatural gift and an ancestral curse: one of them will die before turning fifteen. When the prophecy is fulfilled, Estrella flees her home and the weight of guilt, embarking on an epic journey of love, power, and redemption as she confronts her destiny and the cursed legacy of the women in her bloodline.
Estrella de Zuloaga is the twin sister of Alma and the heir to a Basque aristocratic family marked by supernatural gifts passed down from generation to generation—and by a curse: one of the sisters will die before her fifteenth birthday.
In Villa Soledad, a majestic and unsettling mansion along the Cantabrian coast, Estrella grows up with Alma. Alma can speak to the dead; Estrella, instead, commands fire and nature. Both compete for the love of Tomás, a boy from the village, fueling a growing rivalry between them.
When Alma and Tomás begin a secret romance, Estrella betrays them to their father, the Marquis de Zuloaga, a violent man obsessed with control. In a fit of rage, he fires his rifle, believing he is aiming at a wolf, but accidentally kills Alma. The curse is fulfilled. The tragedy destroys the family and condemns Estrella to a lifelong burden of guilt.
Sent to an English boarding school to silence the scandal, Estrella tries to rebuild her life, but Alma’s ghost refuses to leave her in peace. There she meets Mason Campbell, a young American businessman who finds her irresistible mystery captivating and falls in love with her. Years later, expelled from school after the scandal involving Mason, Estrella returns to Spain. Her father—alcoholic and ruined—despises her; her mother is emotionally absent; only her half-sister Catalina, the illegitimate daughter of the marquis and the maid Carmen, offers her affection.
Desperate to escape, with nowhere else to go, Estrella accepts the American’s marriage proposal and flees with him to California, searching for a fresh start. But the desert of the San Bernardino Valley offers no peace—only challenges.
Guided by Valentina, a native woman of ancestral wisdom, Estrella learns to wield her power to bring water forth from the barren land. The miracle turns her into the savior of the ranch, but mastering nature sometimes comes at a price: oil surges from the earth as a result of her power, and a resulting fire claims Mason’s life.
Widowed, pregnant, and ruined, Estrella returns to Spain. Villa Soledad is no longer the place she left behind—war and poverty have consumed everything. Catalina now lives under the control of a violent husband, Pedro, whom the sisters end up killing in self-defense when he tries to murder Estrella. Determined to save what remains of the Zuloaga legacy, Estrella travels to Madrid to attract investors, where she reunites with Liam Sinclair, a Scottish con artist as seductive as he is dangerous. Together they devise a plan to get rich by selling wolfram—the mineral most coveted by the Nazis. Using her powers, she brings the mineral forth in the family mine, and the business flourishes. But with prosperity come corruption, fear, and abuse of power. Rodrigo Villa, a ruthless Falangist captain and business partner, moves into the mansion and transforms the mine into a hell on earth, even murdering a miner’s son. When violence erupts and the town rises up, Estrella must finally confront her destiny: the power that tormented her for years will now be her only weapon.
In a final, fateful night, Estrella unleashes the full force of her abilities. A black wolf—the symbol of the wild spirit within her—kills Rodrigo Villa as the mansion burns to its foundations. Estrella flees with Liam, Catalina, and the girls: Laura, Estrella and Mason’s daughter; Marina, Catalina’s daughter; and Victoria, the child of a miner couple executed by Rodrigo Villa. Behind them remain the flames, the guilt, and a cursed past. Ahead of them, the promise of freedom and a new life.
RELEVANT INFORMATION: Alaitz Leceaga, born in Bilbao, is the bestselling author of several novels. Winner of the 2021 Fernando Lara Novel Prize, she has become one of the most recognized voices in Spanish-language fiction. Known for her carefully crafted historical settings, mythological references, and her captivating character construction, she has built a loyal community of readers.
El bosque sabe tu nombre blends historical drama, family saga, and magical realism into an intense, visually powerful story. Over many years, we follow the transformation of a woman marked by guilt, loss, and a cursed inheritance, fighting to free herself from the control of her family and of a world bent on subduing her. The novel interweaves love, revenge, power, and redemption across a variety of landscapes, with a complex protagonist whose journey from victim to heroine is deeply cinematic, and with richly drawn supporting characters. Its audiovisual potential is enormous: it possesses a gothic, emotional atmosphere, epic moments, and a visually symbolic universe—fire, the sea, the wolf, the ruined mansion—that would make its adaptation striking in both aesthetic and emotional impact.
AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV Series, Miniseries, Film, TV Movie
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Italian
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