Magdalena
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Magdalena will be released by Regal House Publishing in the summer of 2023. It was on the short list of finals in the William Faulkner William Wisdom Novel Competition and is currently a finalist in the Chanticleer Int'l Book Awards. Magdalena takes an intimate look at a woman who changes her life by changing her story. Sam’s Town is a small, secluded town that thrives on gossip and superstition. Dottie offers plenty of both when the scandal breaks about the missing girl, the ghost, and the affair that started it all. Fifteen-year-old Magdalena is a self-proclaimed “sensitive” who offers to conjure Dottie’s dead boyfriend. Dottie is the town’s outcast, easily manipulated by the crafty girl. Lonely and still mourning four miscarriages, Dottie becomes less intrigued with Magdalena's supernatural abilities than with having a real child in her childless home. In a blur between fantasy and reality, Dottie tries to heal her long broken heart by pretending Magdalena is her daughter. She grows obsessed with the girl, following her around town to make sure she is safe, cooking her dinner and buying her gifts. When Magdalena goes missing, the townspeople blame Dottie. She sets out, in a most unconventional way, to prove her innocence. A mail lady who walks through town followed by a murder of crows, a curious centenarian who proves to know more about Dottie’s story than even Dottie herself, an ex-mobster who is now in the witness protection program, and twin sisters who run a haunted inn all play into the peculiar tale of how Dottie finds her truth deep in her imagination.
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