Think you can't fall in love with a Robot? Santos Andújar is the mysterious aristocrat living in the city of
San Juan who barely survived the unknown illness that killed his entire family and left him to lead a reclusive existence inside his ancestral ocean-front home. Yet Santos' darkly whimsical world is soon besieged by a visit from his beautiful and hedonistic cousin, Violeta Andújar. Far more interested in social intrigue and secret lovers than in the looming Spanish American War that threatens their world, Violeta is at first dismissive of her peculiar and eternally masked relative until a series of odd and disturbing incidents reveal that enigmatic Santos' ailments venture into the paranormal and the oddly futuristic. Suddenly, Violeta Andújar finds herself in the throes of violent political turmoil and a darkly bizarre seduction by a man... who may not be a man at all.
