Uphill, With Love

About this book

In the hill city of Puerto Claro, where the streets give up halfway and hand the rest to stairways, the Ascensor Aurora has carried the people of Cerro Estrella up and down its thirty degrees for a hundred years. Vale Herrera, thirty four, third generation operator, runs it the way her grandfather taught her: on time, by hand, and with the message box open. Riders drop in notes, questions, worries and confessions, and somebody answers them, signed always and only La Estrella. For nine years, unknown to the whole hill, La Estrella has been Vale. Then Bruno Sandoval arrives: a quiet bookbinder who has inherited his uncle's failing bookshop at the top of the line, with careful hands, a mended heart in progress, and no idea how to talk to the sharp funny operator he rides with twice a day. So he writes to the box. But the city has scheduled the Aurora for decommission in the spring, and two people who already love each other must work out that they have already met.