The Casita-The Mother I Did Not Know

What a mother buries always comes back. Three patients. One of them is hunting her. She cannot trust her ownnotes. For thirty years, Dr. Mari Vega has kept Santa Fe's quietest emergenciesinside her casita walls. She is fifty-two, the closest friend of acurandera, and the inheritor of generations of Vega women who learned tokeep silent to survive. She is good at keeping everyone's secrets. Sheis even better at keeping her own. This week, three new patients walk through her door without referrals. Awidow who does not believe her husband jumped from the bell tower of theLa Fonda Hotel. A British corporate lawyer whose accent slips on asingle 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 thenotes sitting in her file. By the eighth, she is no longer sure whichpatient she is treating, which one she is hunting, and which one ishunting her. Then her daughter Sofia returns home after three years of silence, carrying a manila folder she will not yet open. Sofia is not justvisiting. She has been reading the case notes Mari thought were lockedbehind 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 twocenturies. And the mother Sofia remembers is not the mother who has beenwriting these notes. For readers of The Silent Patient, Mexican Gothic, The Push, and TheHacienda. The Mother I Did Not Know is Book One of The Casita Series. A slow-burnpsychological thriller with a Hispana protagonist, a Southwest gothicatmosphere, and a twist you will want to talk about the moment youfinish.