What a mother buries always comes back.
A psychological literary suspense series set in northern New Mexico. Book One is available now.
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
For thirty years, across thousands of fifty-minute sessions, Dr. Mari Vega has kept Santa Fe's quietest emergencies to herself. Then three patients arrive in one week without referrals. A widow who does not believe her husband jumped from the bell tower of La Fonda. A British corporate lawyer whose accent slips on a single vowel. A young woman who keeps asking whether abusers and their victims are the same thing.
By the third session, the case notes Mari swears she wrote are not the notes sitting in her file. And her daughter Sofia comes home to the family casita after three years of silence, carrying a folder she will not open. The lineage no one in her family ever named out loud is about to surface.
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Buy direct 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.
Buy 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 →