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Shadows in La Esperanza: A Legacy Awakens
Paperback
Series: A Tale of Shadows
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 30 2025
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Across the Caribbean, an ancient darkness stirs, and the fragile peace won in Real de La Plata trembles on the brink of collapse. After escaping the flames of her Mexican hacienda, the enigmatic Frenchwoman Anais Laurent and her newly reborn lover, Charlie Lamarche, seek sanctuary on the remote shores of Puerto Rico. Among the whispering sugar cane fields of La Esperanza, they carve out a life in the shadows, hiding their nature, their love, and the memories of the terror that chased them across nations.
But something beneath the island is waking. Something older than vampirism and older than memory itself. Drawn to Charlie's resurrection and to the radiant soul of Padre Felipe Chartrand, now Bishop-designate of San Juan, the Ancient One begins to rise. Felipe believes he has left Mexico's nightmares behind only to face the awakening of an ancient evil.
As Anais senses the land quiver with hunger, Felipe feels a long-buried light awaken within him, a divine spark the Ancient One fears and seeks to destroy. Their destinies, once violently opposed, spiral toward a collision neither can escape.
When the earth splits open and the island trembles beneath the Ancient One's dark fury, Anais and Charlie flee into the night and sail toward Martinique. There, another danger waits. Valérie, Anais's immortal rival, who rules the island's shadows with ruthless beauty, and her return threatens to unravel everything Charlie holds dear.
Three souls, bound by fate, stand at the threshold of salvation and ruin:
Anais, who refuses to surrender her compassion.
Charlie, caught between love and the priest who still prays for his redemption.
Felipe, whose faith must withstand a darkness older than faith itself.
A tale of forbidden devotion, awakening powers, ancient hunger, and the eternal struggle between light and shadow, Shadows in La Esperanza carries readers from Puerto Rico's lush nightscape to the haunted hills of Martinique, where the the true war has only just begun.
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