Book excerpt: The León Roch tells the story of love and passionate triangle between two women and a man, in the environment of Madrid's upper class in the second half of the nineteenth century. León is an industrious Krausist, intelligent and heir to a great fortune, who arrives from Valencia accompanying the Marquises of Fúcar, whose daughter, Pepa, is secretly in love with León. But in Madrid, the intellectual is going to fall under the spell of the fiery, imaginative and sensual temperament of María Egyptiaca, the last link of the ruined marquises of Tellería.