Magdalena

Candi Sary’s entrancing MAGDALENA invites us to Sam’s Town, a coastal village where the dead linger peacefully, but the living struggle to get through the days. Dottie, a woman whose husband hasn’t died and whose children were never born, deals with her grief alone until Magdalena, the neighbor girl......more

I was lucky to get an advanced copy of this book. I read it around Halloween and so images of ghosts were already in my head. This book, for me, started out as a ghost story and then morphed into a Mother’s tale and then back to a ghost story. I loved it! As we find in Dottie’s story, anyone can be......more

I am so lucky to have met Candi at a bookstore signing recently. She was a delight to talk to, and now I have this signed novel from her! The story really held my attention, and I loved all of the cozy, yet creepy vibes. It’s a small-town-ghosty-mystery story. I love small town settings, and especia......more

A beautifully written and highly empathetic account of a spiraling woman Dottie who is grappling with trauma and longing in the haunted setting of fictional Sam's Town - a place with a dark and complicated past. Candi Sary invites readers into Dottie's mind and we tumble with her, feeling deeply for......more

A beautiful tale of love, loss and faith. A lonely woman’s relationship with a young girl that fills the gaps in each of their lives is interwoven with beautiful, fully realized side stories about a town and is habitants; both current and spectral. Spirituality, guilt, suspicion, and fate all combin......more