Bethany's Book Nook

Six months after the events of Bruja Born, Rose Mortiz has been trying to fix her family, and failing. While everyone pretends to be okay, Rose is the only one who sees the cracks in their facade. On her Deathday, she makes a canto about revealing the truth, when those cracks become wide and rise to the surface. Running from the truth her father tells, they are ambushed and dragged into a new realm. Separated from the world she knows and thrown together with her lying-estranged father in a world only familiar to him. They are taken hostage and brought to the Bastard King of Adas and forced into a deal. She has to enter a deal to pay off her fathers debts as well as gain their safety. With her powers now revealed and new, Rose doesn’t know the depth of what she is capable of. With a rag tag group of magical creatures, a prince, warrior princess, and her inner strength to guide her. They must learn to unleash their magical potential together to defeat a curse that plagues the realm and...

       More About the Author Her life was plagued by the trifecta. A disastrous triad of events impacted the very essence of who Lila was, not only her present but her future too. After pushing herself to the point of exhaustion and scaring her family, already struck with grief. The LAST NAME family has no other card left, but to send Lila to visit her family in Winchester, Hampshire, England. Separated from her family, beloved La Panderia kitchen, and left to confront her emotional inner turmoil with distant family. Lila finds solace in the neighborhood, with new friends and a friendly tea shop clerk, Orion.  As a Cuban woman who spent most of her life visiting family in Miami, this book spoke to my soul. All the family narrative mimicked something that would be overheard at reunions or muttered through the neighborhood chismosas (gossipers). It was such a slice of my life, one that I haven’t been able to find in literature before. What brings it ...