Description

Some women are remembered as warnings. Others are erased because they were right.

Before Marisol Espinal returned to Willowshade.
Before the ghosts found their way back.
Before the Espinal women knew the truth about the curse buried in their bloodline…

There was Isadora.

Isadora Espinal was never meant to be obedient. Born into a family of women bound by ancestral magic, duty, and silence, she was expected to inherit a role she never asked for and carry a legacy that felt more like a cage than a gift. Her mother called it responsibility. Her family called it destiny.

Isadora called it a life she refused to lose.

So she ran.

Away from Willowshade. Away from the house that knew too much. Away from the magic that followed the women in her family like a shadow. In Europe, Isadora found freedom, desire, and a love she could almost believe was hers to keep. But some inheritances do not stay buried. Some ghosts do not respect distance. And some men, even in death, know exactly how to turn a woman’s fear against her.

When Isadora is forced back to Willowshade after her mother’s death, she returns to a home thick with secrets, unfinished prayers, and a history no one wants spoken aloud. The deeper she digs, the more she realizes the Espinal family curse did not begin with one woman’s weakness. It began with control. With patriarchy. With silence. With a man who feared women powerful enough to choose themselves.

And Isadora may be the only one who can uncover the truth.

But truth has a cost.

To protect the women who will come after her, Isadora must decide whether freedom means leaving again or staying long enough to become the warning, the wound, and the guidepost history tried to erase.

Atmospheric, intimate, and emotionally sharp, The Forgotten Bruja blends Dominican magical realism, Latine gothic horror, queer historical fiction, psychological horror, and gothic family drama into a haunting origin story about ancestral power, generational trauma, forbidden love, and the women history buries when they refuse to obey.

This is Las Cerradoras, Book Two, but it can be read as a standalone novel.

Perfect for readers who love:

Latine gothic horror
Dominican magical realism
feminist horror
queer historical fiction
haunted family houses
generational curses
ancestral magic
slow-burn supernatural dread
complicated women who refuse to be softened

If The Ordinary Bruja asks what happens when a woman finally believes in herself,
The Forgotten Bruja asks what happens to the woman who stopped believing she could be saved.

Isadora was not forgotten because she failed. She was forgotten because remembering her would reveal the truth.