The Doomswoman

At midnight in Monterey, a man’s guitar draws five white-robed girls from their beds to listen—and Chonita Iturbi y Moncada kneels at the sound. The singer is Diego Estenega, an enemy by family name before she has even met him.

In old California, Governor Alvarado’s christening brings Chonita and Diego together as godparents, while a week of festivities gathers around them. He is bold, quick-minded, and famed for his charm; she is the proud heiress of a house locked in bitter rivalry with his. Worse, Diego’s political opposition has kept Chonita’s beloved brother, Reinaldo, from the Departmental Junta. The narrator calls her the Doomswoman, a woman with power to heal or curse—but can even she master what stirs between duty, pride, and a midnight song?

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