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by Isabela Livino (Author)
A debut Gothic horror set in 1870s Brazil--a tale of creeping suspense in which a young pregnant woman finds herself unable to escape her lover's isolated family home, and a family's deal with the devil goes terribly wrong
1877, Pernambuco, Brazil Raised in a deeply religious household, Madalena knows Dante's Inferno by heart and fears her mother's reaction as much as she fears God. When she falls pregnant with a child conceived in sin, her mother issues a threat: marry or surrender the baby. Madalena is confident that the father, the dashing Leandro Neves, will do right by her and propose. But just as she is about to tell him about the baby, a violent storm sends their carriage careening off the road.
Author Biography
Isabela Livino studied philosophy at the University of Rochester before receiving a master's degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. A native of Pernambuco, Brazil, she currently lives in Connecticut with her husband, their two Caribbean-born coconut retrievers, and the river ducks. An Immaculate Deception is her debut novel.
