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The Veil of Santa Muerte
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 12 2025
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Tepito, people pray to Santa Muerte when they have no other door left. They bring cigarettes, tequila, coins, blood, anything that proves they mean it. And sometimes the shrine answers.
Rosa Martinez only wants her missing twelve year old son back. She finds the alcove, leaves an offering, and hears the word that changes the rules of her life: Truth.
Years later, Alejandro Ruiz is already living the kind of life that demands bargains. He collects for violent men, he lies for survival, and he is watching his sister Elena fade from a sickness he cannot afford to treat. When he kneels in front of La Flaca and asks for money and protection, the help arrives fast, clean, and perfectly counted. The payment does too.
Black wax begins to seep from drains, walls, and mouths. Confessions leak out of people who have spent their whole lives swallowing them. A forgotten chapel becomes a courtroom. And the closer the barrio gets to miracles, the thinner the veil becomes between the living and the thing that keeps the ledger.
The Veil of Santa Muerte is folkloric urban horror where mercy is not guaranteed, bargains are not private, and the only currency that matters is the one people fear most.
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