The forbidden romance that grows between Beatriz and Andrés begins quickly without falling into the trap of insta-love. To survive, she enlists the help of the only priest who will listen to her, Padre Andrés, but he, too, harbors dangerous secrets. Beatriz quickly realizes, however, that she is being watched, and the house she thought would save her might just kill her. When Rodolfo Solórzano, a wealthy military man associated with the newly-created Provisional Government, takes an interest in Beatriz at a ball, she jumps at the chance to marry him despite her mother’s protests. In it, Cañas delivers a chilling and compelling story that melds a childhood fear of the dark with the impacts of colonialism and Catholicism in Mexico after the War of Independence.Īfter the death of her father, a general in the war, Beatriz and her mother are forced to live off the charity of a distant relative, smiling in high society with the men who killed her father for his allegiance to the ousted emperor. The book follows Beatriz, a mestiza woman, and her fight to survive the haunted hacienda she has recently been charged with. Isabel Cañas’s debut horror novel, “The Hacienda,” explores more than just fear.
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