Literary Fiction

The Queen of the Cicadas

by V. Castro

Belinda Alvarez returns to Texas for her best friend's wedding at a farm haunted by the legend of La Reina de Las Chicharras—The Queen of the Cicadas. In the 1950s, a Mexican farmworker named Milagros was murdered and her death ignored. Now the past is rising, and it wants what it was owed.

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