In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, we present for your perusal young adult horror novel, “The Devil’s Promise.” Check the synopsis below:
San Antonio is full of secrets, and seventeen-year-old Erasmo Cruz investigates the strangest of them. After gaining renown for surviving the city’s legendary Ghost Tracks, he has set up shop as a paranormal investigator. But helping exorcize other people’s demons doesn’t seem to relieve his own; his best friend Rat has abandoned him, his grandmother is nearing death, and his own health has taken a sudden decline.
None of these hardships can prepare Erasmo for the story his newest client brings him. Two decades after a strange ritual at a rural ranch, Bradley Erickson is being hunted by the Devil. In exchange for the life of his dreams, Bradley must surrender the blood of his child. The case hurls Erasmo into a dark web of cults, bargains, and broken pasts. Only one thing is certain: the Devil keeps his promises.
This series fills a previously underserved need for Latino voices in the YA horror genre, taking Fear Street from the suburbs and dropping it into the barrio.
The books author Celso Hurtado has been a punk guitarist, worked in the political arena, and played entirely too many hours of The Legend of Zelda. His first book, The Ghost Tracks, was praised by NPR and won Best Young Adult Fantasy & Adventure from the International Latino Book Award. The Devil’s Promise is his second novel.
I like it. Demons, cults and ritual – oh my. This series fills a previously underserved need for Latino voices in the YA horror genre, taking Fear Street from the suburbs and dropping it into the barrio.
“The Devil’s Promise” is out October 3rd, where books are sold.