Release 6 August
Writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Publisher Quercus Books
Price £14.99
Poor Casiopea Tun. Named for a constellation, she’s about as far from the stars as it gets, working as a glorified servant in her grandfather’s house in Mexico in the Twenties. Her better-favoured cousin, Martín, makes her life a complete misery, and while Casiopea dreams of moving to the city or seeing the ocean, her days are spent in drudgery.
That is, until she opens the mysterious black box at the end of her grandfather’s bed and accidentally sets free Hun-Kamé, one of the Mayan gods of death. Imprisoned by his twin brother, Hun-Kamé’s out for revenge, and Casiopea gets taken along for the ride. Ultimately, though, both of their fates lie somewhere along the Black Road of Xibalba,…
