Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago.īelieving Nena dead, Néstor has been on the run from his grief ever since, moving from ranch to ranch working as a vaquero. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead. but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her, and Tristán begins seeing the ghost of his ex-girlfriend.Īs they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristán may find that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies.Īs the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters-her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristán to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives -even if his tale of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him since childhood. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. But the shock of their reunion-and Nena’s rage at Néstor for seemingly abandoning her long ago-is quickly overshadowed by the appearance of a nightmare made flesh.Īnd unless Nena and Néstor work through their past and face the future together, neither will survive to see the dawn.Montserrat has always been overlooked. When the United States invades Mexico in 1846, the two are brought abruptly together on the road to war: Nena as a curandera, a healer striving to prove her worth to her father so that he does not marry her off to a stranger, and Néstor as a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers and vaqueros. But no amount of drink can dispel the night terrors of sharp teeth no woman can erase his childhood sweetheart from his mind.

Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda.Īs the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters-her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north.

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas