The Amulet of Cananea: Song of Carmelita - Paperback

by Raymond F. Cavanagh (Author)

Carmelita Carreras's life over the past sixteen years has been a lie. A lie that was right in front of her green eyes the whole time.Huddled over her mother's deathbed, Carmelita leans close as she hears the story of how she came to be. A kitchen worker in the sprawling Mexican estate of a mining mogul, her mother, Edelmida, was brutally raped by an Irish immigrant supervisor. Furious and feeling helpless, Edelmida steals a bejeweled antique cross, handed down since the days of Cortez, and plants it in the room of her rapist hoping for revenge. She gets her wish, and the man is run out of town as a thief. Edelmida marries a miner who Carmelita always came to think of as her father, but the true biological identity of her father is unclear. Carmelita sets out to find the truth about her father, the cross-missing for years and said to bring good fortune-and herself, sparking events that lead to the Mexican Revolution.

Author Biography

Ray Cavanagh spent several years as a musician and performer. Ray was a member of ASCAP and had several songs published by Eden Music. The most prominent, "Will I Know You", was recorded by Peggy March and released on Ariola Records worldwide. Born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, he received a Masters Degree in International Business from Northeastern University, Boston in 2000. He traveled the world extensively in his career as a hi-tech executive. Cavanagh founded an Italian wine accessories company, Portovista, which imported glassware from Tuscany. A recognized industry expert on Security, he has been interviewed as a subject matter expert on TV stations WHDH TV Boston, KPRC Houston, WJXT Jacksonville, and WWL and WVUE New Orleans (clips available on http: //www.linkedin.com/in/raycavanagh/). He has published articles in Security Magazine, SC Magazine, Inland Port Magazine, the Wall Street Journal and many others. The Amulet of Cananea is his first novel. He is working on a sequel as well as a novel on pirating and Native Americans in the 1800's.