The Ordinary Bruja

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>The Ordinary Bruja</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> is a haunting and heartfelt coming-of-age novel wrapped in Dominican magical realism and psychological horror.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Marisol Espinal doesn't believe she's special. Not when she's back in her small Ohio hometown working as a barista haunted by grief and the girls who once made her life hell. But when mirrors flicker with strange words cigar smoke curls where no one is smoking and voices whisper from Hallowthorn Hill she realizes something darker has always been watching.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>The Espinal family magic was buried generations ago forced into silence by Salvador the ancestor who bound their power to himself. Now his ghost feeds on fear and doubt and Marisol is his next target. To survive she must reclaim her heritage unearth the truth hidden in her mother's journal and face the hill that has been waiting for her all along.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Atmospheric and emotionally charged </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>The Ordinary Bruja</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> blends generational trauma identity reclamation and queer love with a creeping sense of dread. Perfect for fans of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Mexican Gothic</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> this novel asks: </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>What does it cost to embrace every part of yourself-even the parts the world taught you to bury?</em></p><p></p>