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Ann Dávila Cardinal's Five Midnights is a "wickedly thrilling" (William Alexander) and "flat-out unputdownable" (Paul Tremblay) novel based on the el Cuco myth set against the backdrop of modern day Puerto Rico. Five friends cursed. Five deadly fates. Five nights of retribucion. If Lupe Dávila and Javier Utierre can survive each other's company, together they can solve a series of grisly murders sweeping though Puerto Rico. But the clues lead them out of the real world and into the realm of myths and legends. And if they want to catch the killer, they'll have to step into the shadows to see what's lurking there -- murderer, or monster? "A frightening, fast-paced thriller." -- Julianna Baggott, Alex Award-winning author of Pure
About the Author
Ann 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, as was the sequel, Category Five. Her adult debut, the novel The Storyteller's Death, will be released from Sourcebooks Landmark on October 4, 2022.Five Midnights won an AudioFile Earphones Award, an International Latino Book Award 2020, and was a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award. Category Five was a finalist for the 2021 International Latino Book 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. Ann lives in Vermont, needle-felts tiny reading creatures, and prepares for the zombie apocalypse.
