The Possession of Alba Díaz

"1765, Mexico: Alba Díaz flees the plague to the countryside around her fiancé’s family’s silver mine. Elías, her fiancé’s cousin, is a black sheep with a dark secret, only there to get rich and get out. Both are isolated, striving sans allies for security; then they discover a supernatural terror as old as the dark. Isabel Cañas writes nuanced, sympathetic characters and knows exactly what to hide and what to reveal – surprising me more than once, to my delight. Our protagonists can’t take a step without finding a secret, and I couldn’t wait to read more. This is an exemplary gothic full of dread, tension, sensuousness and yearning – a perilously good read."