The Witch’s Door

About the Book

This is a story about witchcraft. In 1926, a six-year-old boy named Juan Aguilar goes on a camping trip with his family to Questa, New Mexico. He runs into a cursed house, and he is mysteriously transported back in time to 1826. He is taken in by a local family, and he slowly starts to discover why this house was cursed, that many other children have suffered the same fate, and ten years later finds his way back to his family in Albuquerque. When he returns home, no one believes his strange story of Bella the witch and the notorious witch hunter, Luciano del Valle. Years later, as an adult, he writes his story of witchcraft in rural New Mexico.

About the Author

Ricardo Angel Martinez, was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1946. His father was from Puerto Rico and his mother was from Albuquerque. At the age of 18 he became a musician and traveled through California, Colorado, Utah, Texas and Iowa playing music for a living. After ten years on the road he returned to New Mexico and continued to play music until he retired as a professional musician in 2015. He still plays keyboards from time to time. When he retired from music he took up writing to satisfy his creative instincts. This book, The witches Door, is the first in a series of books on witches and witch hunters in early New Mexico. Parts of this book and the coming books are based on stories about witches and witchcraft that Ricardo Angel Martinez heard as a young boy from his relatives and family members. The Witches Door in.