Dark. Scary. Mysterious. Deadly. Monsterous.
She had me at Puerto Rico. Ann Dávila Cardinal’s first solo novel is suspenseful and thrilling at the same time.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ann Dávila Cardinal is a novelist and Director of Recruitment for Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA). Her co-written novel, SISTER CHICAS, was released from New American Library in 2006. Her first solo release, a horror young adult novel FIVE MIDNIGHTS, was released by Tor Teen in 2019, and the sequel, CATEGORY FIVE, came out this June 2020. FIVE MIDNIGHTS won an AudioFile Earphones Award, an International Latino Book Award 2020, and was a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award. Her stories have appeared in several anthologies, including Lockdown: Stories of Crime, Terror, and Hope During a Pandemic (2020); and Women Writing the Weird (2012) and she contributed to the Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, And Society in the United States edited by Ilan Stavans. Her essays have appeared in American Scholar, Vermont Woman, AARP, and Latina Magazines. Ann lives in Vermont, needle-felts tiny reading creatures, and prepares for the zombie apocalypse. Visit her http://annhcardinal.com/.