MY SWEETHEART: My Sweetheart, a novel of love, intrigue, suffering, sleeplessness, empowerment and challenges subtitled: YOU are no longer my Sweetheart, is a contemporary novel by the writer Pilar Cerón Durán, The Muse of the Atacama Desert, Chile. She introduces us to the captivating Esmeralda, the protagonist of the unforgettable literary work The Pilgrim Bride. Is a second marriage better than the first? She is faced with one of the biggest dilemmas of her life upon discovering that her great love from the past, still present in her heart, is in London. She is willing to risk everything to reunite with her Sweetheart, because she knows that she is destined to be with him, but there is a problem: her 21st century prince.
Esmeralda, a woman empowered and lover of her freedom, who feeds off challenges, regardless of the fact that for most people they're dreams are impossible to achieve, and for others, true madness. She decides to leave everything behind - her home, her beloved husband, and the stability of a family. Will Esmeralda be able to overcome the obstacles and ignite the passionate flame of love from twenty years ago?
Determined to consummate her long-awaited and elusive love and the fact she experienced near death by contracting Coronavirus, she embarks on a new adventure with her magical red shoes in search of happiness and love.
And you? Would you be willing to risk everything... to reunite with your great love from the past or from youth? Nothing that can stop Esmeralda, nor will she die without once again savouring the saccharinity of her Sweetheart.
After sharing almost six intense months with her Sweetheart, which to begin with was full of euphoria after finally realizing their long-awaited reencounter, and making their dream trip to the Chilean Patagonia and Umbria Italy come true. She faces all her feelings and experiences, including the closeness to death, pain, anguish and uncertainty, and becomes aware of the fact that her Sweetheart is beginning to melt.
Now, becoming strengthened not only from the grave situation in which she had been and having overcome an existential crisis that prompted her to throw away the true love of her life for a mirage, she knew and understood that love must be constantly cultivated, day by day.
Of course, passion is important and for a long time she mistook it for love. For years she idealized a relationship that only worked between four walls without sharing hobbies, tastes, thoughts, goals or language, because one falls in love with the body as well as the spirit. Their spirits were separate, without knowing it, and their bodies worked perfectly together, but they didn't have what it took to face adversity, even though she was convinced of it. They never had the opportunity to get to know each other thoroughly to express their points of view and show themselves as they were, because the language was effectively a barrier, that they thought could collapse. Love was what she thought she felt for Todd, and what she imagined she would revive in their encounter; that enormous passion of youth, which consumes, and also destroys.
I dedicate this book to those who read and immerse themselves in the story of Esmeralda and her Sweetheart; may I be able to provide sparks of hope and strength to ease the way into making the grand decision to risk everything in order to reunite with their great love, or have the courage to leave it in the past as a wonderful dream.