About this item
Category Five is a new supernatural YA thriller from Ann Dvila Cardinal, set against the backdrop of a post-hurricane Puerto Rico.After the hurricane, some see destruction and some smell blood. The tiny island of Vieques, located just off the northeastern coast of the main island of Puerto Rico, is trying to recover after hurricane Maria, but the already battered island is now half empty. To make matters worse, as on the main island, developers have come in to buy up the land at a fraction of its worth, taking advantage of the island when it is down.Lupe, Javier, and Marisol are back to investigate a series of murders that follow in the wake of a hurricane and in the shadow of a new supernatural threat.
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.
