The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers - not for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. Schwab, number one New York Times best-selling author). Get your manuscript in front of interested agents and publishers.Perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Isabel Allende, and Sarah Addison Allen, a family searches for the truth hidden in their past in this “expertly woven tale of family power, threaded with as much mystery as magic” (V.E. It’s a captivating read, an artistically written novel that can be treasured for its gorgeous language, along with delightful characters whose adventure into the unknown and mystical is fascinating. Cordova’s descriptions of the family’s affection for each other and their environment are poetically bewitching. This suspenseful story is about love of family, myths, and culture differences, all interwoven into a fantasy tale. What, or who, was she afraid of? What were her secrets? What promises had Orquìdea made, and to whom? The narrative revolves around the Montoyas, who travel to Ecuador to discover who is trying to destroy the family, and to learn why Orquidea left the country. When Tatinelly mysteriously dies, the family realizes they are being hunted and are in danger. The other Montoya clan, Rey, which includes Tatinelly and her daughter, are likewise bedeviled. Marimar, a granddaughter, inherits the property - but also a body anomaly - a living rose growing out her throat.

Tree branches grew out of her wrist like extensions of her veins.” When the family arrives, they are shocked to see her beautiful home on lush property they remembered in ruins, and Orquìdea trapped in a chair: “Roots from a tree tore through the floorboards and wrapped around her. I am dying.” She asks them to arrive at her home at a specific time where they can claim their inheritance. Her family receive written invitations from Orquìdea: “The earth has turned. She was a young woman when, under unexplained circumstances, she had departed her birthplace, Guayaquil, Ecuador, and never returned. The story begins to unfold when Great-grandmother Orquìdea Divina Montoya summons her Ecuadorian-American family to her home in Four Rivers, USA, a desolate place where she married several times and raised her children. Zoraida Córdova’s tropes are as magical as her fantasy novel, “The Inheritance of Orquìdea Divina,” where bargains are made with the unknown and kept secret until ill-fortune spreads like vines, ultimately choking the family tree to death.

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova