MY NAME IS EMILIA DEL VALLE

An unforgettable story of love and war starring a woman who, faced with the greatest challenges, survives and reinvents herself. San Francisco, 1866: An Irish nun, pregnant and abandoned by a Chilean aristocrat after a passionate affair, gives birth to a girl whom she names Emilia del Valle. Raised by her loving stepfather, Emilia grows into a brilliant young woman with a strong personality—self-reliant and independent—who defies the social norms of her time to pursue her true passion and calling: writing. At just seventeen, she will publish adventure novels under a male pseudonym. But soon, her fictional world will feel too small, and she will decide to accept a job as a journalist at the local newspaper to experience reality firsthand. Some time later, she will be offered the opportunity to travel as a correspondent to the raging civil war in Chile, and she will not hesitate to take it. Alongside the seasoned journalist Eric Whelan, Emilia will find a nation in ruins, teetering on the brink of collapse. While covering the armed conflict between President Balmaceda and the rebel congress, she will use her time in the country to explore her ties to the Del Valle family and, at last, meet her father.