Fiction – Horror – Thrillers – Supernatural – Hispanic & Latino

RELEASE DATE: 9/1/2026 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE)

A debut Gothic horror set in 1870s Brazila tale of creeping suspense in which a young pregnant woman finds herself unable to escape her lovers isolated family home, and a familys deal with the devil goes terribly wrong

1877, Pernambuco, Brazil: Raised in a deeply religious household, Madalena knows Dantes Inferno by heart and fears her mothers reaction as much as she fears God. When she falls pregnant with a child conceived in sin, her mother issues a threat: marry or surrender the baby. Madalena is confident that the father, the dashing Leandro Neves, will do right by her and propose. But just as she is about to tell him about the baby, a violent storm sends their carriage careening off the road.

Madalena awakens in Leandros sprawling, secluded home, under the care of the mysterious and larger-than-life Doctor Lobo. Leandro is there . . . but he is no longer the charming poet she knew. Hes silent. Obsessed. Always watching.

Strange perfume haunts a locked room. Pages vanish from books. Jewels lie untouched in a forgotten wardrobe. And mirrors begin disappearing after Madalena sees somethingor someoneghastly in the reflection.

Leandro is unraveling. Doctor Lobo may be hiding something even darker. Trapped in a decaying house of secrets, Madalena must uncover the truth before the men around her destroy her, and before the hell she fears becomes the one shes living in.

AUTHOR BIO:

Isabela Livinostudied philosophy at the University of Rochester before receiving a master’s degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. A native of Pernambuco, Brazil, she currently lives in Connecticut with her husband, their two Caribbean-born coconut retrievers, and the river ducks.An Immaculate Deceptionis her debut novel.