In Search of Laika
Martín didn’t choose to become a mage. The mage chose him. And that changes everything: those who choose can prepare. Those who are chosen have to learn as it happens.
Emotional fantasy · 10–14 years · Complete manuscript available
What begins as a search
becomes the first journey to the bottom of the world.
On the morning Laika disappears, Martín doesn’t yet know that the family shop has a floor. That beneath that floor lies a map. And that the map has spent decades waiting for someone to arrive with exactly what he and his three sisters have without knowing they have it.
What begins as a search — bringing back who is missing — becomes the first journey of four siblings into a territory where emotions carry physical weight, objects hold the memory of what the world has lost, and magic isn’t a skill but the scar left by everything that broke and nobody repaired.
Martín will learn that holding others up isn’t the same as never needing to be held. Claudia will discover that making what she imagines real comes with a cost nobody warns you about. Carlota will be the first to sense that something in that world doesn’t want to be whole again. And Tana — nine years old, always barefoot, carrying a spare sock just in case — will hear something the others can’t.
The volume closes with a real victory. Laika is back. And the world remains unstable. Which is exactly why what comes next matters even more.
There are things you only understand once they’re gone.
The weight. When Martín did his homework, Laika would settle under the desk and rest her head on his feet. Not on the floor beside his feet — on his feet. That specific warmth through his sock was the signal that everything was still in its place.
The panting. Laika recognised his footsteps. Not when he opened the door — before. First the panting. Then the soft padding of paws. Then her nose pressed against the gap before he could turn the handle. As if he were, of all the people in the world, the one she had been waiting for.
When Martín laughed for real — the kind of laugh that comes out before you can decide whether to let it — Laika always did the same thing. She lifted her head. She looked at him. And she made a sound. Not a bark. Something softer, almost like a sigh with a voice. As if she were saying: there you are.
Laika came into the house. She went straight to the corner. She sniffed it. She turned twice. She lay down.
And then she made the sound. The small one. The soft one. The there you are one.
Martín sat down on the floor.
«Yes,» he said. «Here I am.»
— In Search of Laika · The Adventures of Martín the Mage · Vol. IFour siblings.
No two alike.
Martín
The one who holdsTwelve years old. He mops the floor when something weighs on him. In this volume he discovers that looking after the world and looking after himself aren’t the same thing.
Vol. I arc: DiscovererClaudia
The one who imaginesHer imagination can make real what she conceives. The saga’s most powerful gift. And the one closest to overflowing in this first volume.
Vol. I arc: First materialisationCarlota
The one who feelsShe senses what’s about to change before it changes. In Vol. I she’s the first to understand that Laika isn’t the only thing they’re searching for.
Vol. I arc: First real perceptionTana
The one who listensNine years old. Always barefoot. Carries a sock in her pocket. When you ask her why, she says: «For the other foot, in case it needs one.»
Vol. I arc: The one who listens before understandingThe first volume works both as a standalone story and as the opening of a six-book arc. Transmedia IP conceived from the outset: book, series, licensing. Full bible available on request.
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«A work with strong editorial potential. A story that handles emotion seriously without ever talking down to the reader. Genuine narrative skill. It isn’t easy to fuse story and message and pitch it to a specific age range.»
Eva Fraile · Literary agent · La Reina Lectora · February 2026