This is the story of women who try to evolve, earn their freedom, embrace the power of self growth!Īlejandra is in deep pain: She feels empty, after moving to another city, saying goodbye to her birth mother she recently met. This is more than Alejandra’s heartbreaking story who is dealing with depression, feeling incapable, like a ghost people just walk over or step on, yearning for love she never felt in her marriage or from adopting parents.

Powerful Mexican folklore blended in women’s fiction, fantasy and horror genres with so much powerful women stories from different eras! She has inherited the strength and the courage of her foremothers-and she will have to summon everything they have given her to banish La Llorona forever.Ī big WOW! This book will haunt my dreams for a long time. And she will not leave until Alejandra follows her mother, her grandmother, and all the women who came before her into the darkness.īut Alejandra has inherited more than just pain. She is La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican legend. As she goes deeper into the lives of the women in her family, she learns that heartbreak and tragedy are not the only things she has in common with her ancestors.īecause the crying woman was with them, too. When Alejandra visits a therapist, she begins exploring her family’s history, starting with the biological mother she never knew. In times of despair, a ghostly vision appears to her, the apparition of a crying woman in a ragged white gown.

But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her family history in this ravishing and provocative horror novel.Īlejandra no longer knows who she is.

The haunting of alejandra by v castro