Guillermo X. Márquez, author of the true-crime/horror sensation EVIL'S EDEN: Only Murders in Los Angeles, has released a new supernatural comedy novel titled DISPOSSESSED: A Very L.A. Ghost Story. The book, set to be available in softcover and hardcover on October 30th, delves into the complexities of life, love, and loathing in Los Angeles, a city of unbounded promise rooted in unfiltered evil.
DISPOSSESSED centers on a young Hispanic Angeleno, Alex Olvera, and his tempestuous love for lily-white Tempest Wirth. The couple death-spirals into homeownership under the spell of a decrepit Victorian with a grisly past. As the holidays approach, Alex and Tempest secretly apartment-hunt, defying parental edicts. However, an overpriced, tumbledown rent-to-own Victorian mansion beguiles Tempest the moment she touches its antique Victrola. Soon, Alex is bedeviled by endless repairs, money woes, and the question of whether their janky love nest is haunted. As their finances unravel, they fight to keep the house. Then, Tempest falls under the thrall of a malevolent, if impossibly hunky, force. Alex uncovers the grisly secrets of the home's first owners, a vaunted L.A. founding family. Now, the house wants Alex out, so it can have Tempest to itself. Alex and his geeky friends must rescue Tempest from the ghostly fiend, even if she doesn't love him anymore.
Underpinned by the Victorian era treacheries of a fictional robber baron, DISPOSSESSED weaves the torrid tale of a modern-day triangle among a boy, a girl, and a thing long dead. Márquez describes the book as being about "depravity, debauchery, life's firsts, infidelity, inequality, broken hearts, oppression, possession, corporate takeovers, land theft, privilege, paucity, murder most foul, family feuds, friendship, the high cost of living, and kicking demon ass. So yes — it's a comedy." The novel has received praise from Books2Flicks.com, which called it "an irreverent coming-of-age comedy with the chills of slow-burn horror" and recommended it as the perfect holiday evergreen.
The book is published by Books Illuminated, LLC, a publisher that specializes in acquiring fully edited and proofed manuscripts for rapid turnaround to market. All acquisitions are selected for quality, as well as ancillary market potential including motion pictures, streaming series, animated series, music, fine art, comics, graphic novels, audiobooks, toys, games, and fashions. More information can be found at BooksIlluminated.com.
Author Guillermo Xavier Márquez, known to his crew as "GX," spins tales that explore the human condition in all its sweet and spicy flavors. Ever the underdog, GX loves writing about ordinary folk battling extraordinary circumstances through true crime, comedy, horror, science fiction, and adventure. He has written numerous award-winning screenplays and the hybrid true-crime horror novella, EVIL'S EDEN: Only Murders in Los Angeles. GX couch-surfed in a dilapidated, rent-to-own, certifiably haunted Beverly Hills mansion said to be the site of ritual sacrifice, uncannily right next door to a soon-to-be-killer. Those spooky encounters infuse his scribblings and ghost-hunting habits to this day. More information is available at GXMarquez.com.
DISPOSSESSED: A Very L.A. Ghost Story is available for purchase at DispossessedNovel.com.
