Solita: A Gothic Romance - Vivien Rainn

They say every house has its ghosts; but the Hacienda has only one. nSadie is her name, and she is passing through the motions of a life soaked through with the stench of death. Grief-ridden nightmares plague her every sleepless night, only to continue into the day when she awakens to the burden of running her family's centuries-old estate: n nThe Hacienda Espinosa, a yawning, black-wooded beast of a mansion nestled in the jungles of the Philippines' Palawan Island, a house that offers Sadie nothing but a perpetual reminder of what once was, what can never be again.

She is alone, save for the sound of her own lonely, broken heartbeat-that is until the day she hears another. n nAnd it's coming from beneath the floorboards. n nUnearthing what was left to rot beneath the house, Sadie realizes her fatal mistake; the dark secret was never buried to be forgotten.

It was buried to be sealed away. n nIt's no mortal, no man, but the Hacienda's first owner-a demon. n nAnd he's nothing like she expects.

n nIt's only through facing the past and her buried fears can Sadie find salvation as she upturns the Hacienda's twisted roots, roots born from the faith and fire of the conquistas, the Spaniards who came from distant shores, bringing with them not only their God, but also their demons. n nCurses and love have collided; the account of such here is sweeping and told with prose that gently sways the reader through a romance capable of living amongst the classics. Gillian Dowell, author of Paracosm, Found by Forbiddance, and Hello, Dove n nRainn has created a vivid world that walks the line of reality and fantasy, perfectly blending them together; a perfect marriage.

Sabrina Voerman, author of Red and sa n nSolita is worth your time, your regard, and your attention. It is also worth reading for how spellbindingly it wraps around your heart and threatens to take it into the grave. Stephanie Kemler, author of Bloodborn n nEvery Gothic flavor one yearns for-the despair and the shadows, the smoldering demons, a haunted historic home-is supplied tenfold, but what is such a delight of this story is the cultural insight of a tropical world so rarely explored in Gothic literature.

S. Escobar, author of A Song Beyond Wallsn