In 1765, plague sweeps through Zacatecas. Alba flees with her wealthy merchant parents and fianc'', Carlos, to his family’s isolated mine for refuge. But safety proves fleeting as other dangers soon bare their teeth: Alba begins suffering from strange hallucinations, sleepwalking, and violent convulsions. She senses something cold lurking beneath her skin. Something angry. Something wrong.
Elías, haunted by a troubled past, came to the New World to make his fortune and escape his family’s legacy of greed. Alba, as his cousin’s betrothed, is none of his business. Which is of course why he can’t help but notice her every time she enters a room or the growing tension between them… and why he notices her deteriorate when the demon’s thirst for blood grows stronger.
In the fight for her life, Alba and Elías become entangled with the occult, the Church, long-kept secrets, and each other… not knowing that one of these things will spell their doom.
Genre: Horror
Elías, haunted by a troubled past, came to the New World to make his fortune and escape his family’s legacy of greed. Alba, as his cousin’s betrothed, is none of his business. Which is of course why he can’t help but notice her every time she enters a room or the growing tension between them… and why he notices her deteriorate when the demon’s thirst for blood grows stronger.
In the fight for her life, Alba and Elías become entangled with the occult, the Church, long-kept secrets, and each other… not knowing that one of these things will spell their doom.
Genre: Horror
Praise for this book
"With every book, Isabel Canas asserts jaw-dropping peerlessness at her craft. Chilling and tender, bloody and sensuous, The Possession of Alba Diaz is Canas working at the height of her prodigious powers, expanding her fascinating Gothic oeuvre with her best and most brutal work yet. I devoured it.'-" - Olivie Blake
"Gorgeous and gory. No one writes gothic like Isabel Canas. The Possession of Alba Diaz is terrifically terrifying, richly imagined, impossibly sensual and as luminous as the quicksilver that spills across its pages." - Roshani Chokshi
"Searching for self; broken families; women in white; divinity colonised and decolonised; romance; possession in all of its forms -- with prose at times deliciously baroque, at times austere as the Zacatecas landscape, Canas has created a gothic feast for the senses. Don't read it too late at night." - Brigitte Knightley
"Gorgeous and gory. No one writes gothic like Isabel Canas. The Possession of Alba Diaz is terrifically terrifying, richly imagined, impossibly sensual and as luminous as the quicksilver that spills across its pages." - Roshani Chokshi
"Searching for self; broken families; women in white; divinity colonised and decolonised; romance; possession in all of its forms -- with prose at times deliciously baroque, at times austere as the Zacatecas landscape, Canas has created a gothic feast for the senses. Don't read it too late at night." - Brigitte Knightley
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