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The Mother I Did Not Know
Paperback
Series: The Casita
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Cordova Consulting
Published: Aug 12 2026
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
What a mother buries always comes back.
Three patients. One of them is hunting her. She cannot trust her own
notes.
For thirty years, Dr. Mari Vega has kept Santa Fe's quietest emergencies
inside her casita walls. She is fifty-two, the closest friend of a
curandera, and the inheritor of generations of Vega women who learned to
keep silent to survive. She is good at keeping everyone's secrets. She
is even better at keeping her own.
This week, three new patients walk through her door without referrals. A
widow who does not believe her husband jumped from the bell tower of the
La Fonda Hotel. A British corporate lawyer whose accent slips on a
single American vowel. A young woman who keeps repeating one question:
are abusers and their victims the same thing?
By the third session, the case notes Mari swears she wrote are not the
notes sitting in her file. By the eighth, she is no longer sure which
patient she is treating, which one she is hunting, and which one is
hunting her.
Then her daughter Sofia returns home after three years of silence,
carrying a manila folder she will not yet open. Sofia is not just
visiting. She has been reading the case notes Mari thought were locked
behind a password no one else should know.
The malpractice case Mari buried eight years ago is about to surface.
The Vega women have been keeping silent for four generations across two
centuries. And the mother Sofia remembers is not the mother who has been
writing these notes.
For readers of The Silent Patient, Mexican Gothic, The Push, and The
Hacienda.
The Mother I Did Not Know is Book One of The Casita Series. A slow-burn
psychological thriller with a Hispana protagonist, a Southwest gothic
atmosphere, and a twist you will want to talk about the moment you
finish.
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