The Casita Series
What a mother buries always comes back.
A psychological literary suspense series set in northern New Mexico. Book One launches August 31, 2026.
The Casita Series is a slow-burn psychological literary suspense by K.B. Cordova, set in Santa Fe and Abiquiú across the matrilineal landscape of northern New Mexico.
Each book layers Hispano and Genízara lineage with the kind of suspense that lingers long after the last page. Family secrets that travel further than the people who keep them. Women whose competence does not protect them from what they are carrying.
Book One
The Mother I Did Not Know
When Dr. Mari Vega Brandt returns to the family casita in Abiquiú to settle her mother's estate, the inheritance is not what she expected. A stack of clinical case notes. Three patients arriving without referrals. A widow at La Fonda. A British professor whose accent slips. A young woman who keeps repeating one question.
By the third session, the case notes Mari swears she wrote are not the notes sitting in her file. The Genízara lineage no one in her family ever named out loud complicates every story she thought she knew.
Pre-order Book One →One offer for every direct buyer
Pre-order at ThriveCollectiveHQ.com and your copy comes from the first-edition printing, with the digital Reader's Companion delivered to your inbox: the Vega family tree, the Abiquiú and Santa Fe map, author notes on the case-files form, the Genízara glossary, book club questions, and the first chapter of Book Two. Ships August 31, 2026.
Pre-Order the First EditionAbout the author
K.B. Cordova lives and writes in northern New Mexico. Her psychological suspense draws on the matrilineal landscape of the region, where Hispano and Genízara lineage shape the stories that get told and the ones that don't. Visit the author page →