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Seventeen-year-old, Nina, discovers she has an ancient past that links her to the legendary Weeping Woman, La Llorona. That connection helps her overcome her battered and abusive past but the wrath of an Aztec high priest threatens to collide her modern day world as a mysterious stranger leads her into the perilous Paradise of Lost Souls. No library descriptions found. |
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Estranged from her mother and abusive stepfather, Nina lives in a rundown house on the wrong side of the tracks that she inherited from her grandmother.
When she starts have strange dreams about La Llorona, the Weeping Woman from legend who walks the Earth, cursed as she drowns children who get too close to the water, she thinks nothing of it. That is, until her aunt's children and many others disappear.
When her friends, Anthony and Marge, make Nina go back to visit her mother and aunt, the ancient Aztec past comes back to haunt them. With weird creatures after them, an evil Aztec Priest out to kill them in order to begin his eternal reign, and a man named Diego claiming that Nina's spirit is ancient and from the time of the Aztecs, Nina must confront her past and her family's dark history in order to break the curse of La Llorona and many other trapped souls.
Will she succeed or be killed by the Aztec priest?
HEART OF THE JAGUAR is a great, action-packed fantasy adventure that keeps the readers on their toes. Filled with mystery, history, and mysticism, this book is well-written. The main characters are well-developed and the plot is well-done. Readers who like fantasy, adventure, and science fiction will all enjoy reading this book. ( )