From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film—and awakens one woman’s hidden powers. “No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking,sinister magic beneath better than Silvia Moreno-Garcia.”—Kiersten White#1 bestselling author of Hide Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editorbut she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friendTristána charming if faded soap opera starthough she’s been in love with him since childhood. Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Uruetaand 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. The magic film was never finishedwhich is whyUrueta swearshis career vanished overnight. He is cursed. Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristán to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following herand Tristán begins seeing the ghost of his ex-girlfriend. As they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their cityMontserrat and Tristán may find that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies.