No ordinary priest, Andrés will have to rely on his skills as a witch to fight off the malevolent presence haunting the hacienda and protect the woman for whom he feels a powerful, forbidden attraction. And no one there will save her.ĭesperate for help, she clings to the young priest, Padre Andrés, as an ally. Rodolfo’s sister, Juana, scoffs at Beatriz’s fears-but why does she refuse to enter the house at night? Why does the cook burn copal incense at the edge of the kitchen and mark the doorway with strange symbols? What really happened to the first Doña Solórzano?īeatriz only knows two things for certain: Something is wrong with the hacienda. The weight of invisible eyes follows her every move.
When Rodolfo returns to work in the capital, visions and voices invade Beatriz’s sleep. She will have her own home again, no matter the cost.īut Hacienda San Isidro is not the sanctuary she imagined. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife’s sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the security that his estate in the countryside provides. Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches.ĭuring the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father was executed and her home destroyed.
But the shock of their reunion-and Nena’s rage at Néstor for seemingly abandoning her long ago-is quickly overshadowed by the appearance of a nightmare made flesh.Īnd unless Nena and Néstor work through their past and face the future together, neither will survive to see the dawn.Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches. When the United States invades Mexico in 1846, the two are brought abruptly together on the road to war: Nena as a curandera, a healer striving to prove her worth to her father so that he does not marry her off to a stranger, and Néstor as a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers and vaqueros.
But no amount of drink can dispel the night terrors of sharp teeth no woman can erase his childhood sweetheart from his mind. Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago.īelieving Nena dead, Néstor has been on the run from his grief ever since, moving from ranch to ranch working as a vaquero. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead. Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda.Īs the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters-her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north.
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