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To be free, we must learn to fly.Teresa Sanchez has always known who she was: a professor, a wife, a mother, and a friend. But when her husband dies unexpectedly, she finds herself completely broken. Taking a leave from the university, Teresa hopes that she can mourn her husband and get back on her feet, but instead, she spends a year consumed by grief.Until the day she levitates. Suddenly, Teresa's life is thrown into disarray, and the repeated incidents of levitation not only make her question her sanity, but also put her in danger. She decides she will do anything to stop them. So when she's reminded that her family is related to the renowned levitating mystic, Saint Teresa of Avila, she leaves the refuge of her home and travels to Spain, hoping to find answers.
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.
