THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957 one year after Daniel and Bea from THE SHADOW OF THE WIND have married. They now have a son Julian and are living with Daniel s father at Sempere & Sons. Fermin still works with them and is busy preparing for his wedding to Bernarda in the New Year. However something appears to be bothering him. Daniel is alone in the shop one morning when a mysterious figure with a pronounced limp enters. He spots one of their most precious volumes that is kept locked in a glass cabinet a beautiful and unique illustrated edition of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. Despite the fact that the stranger seems to care little for books he wants to buy this expensive edition. Then to Daniel s surprise the man inscribes the book with the words To Fermin Romero de Torres who came back from the dead and who holds the key to the future . This visit leads back to a story of imprisonment betrayal and the return of a deadly rival ...