Laia. Desire, Obsession, Madness, and Murder

Forward A Tragedy. An event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a severe accident, crime, or natural catastrophe. In all aspects, the novel Laia. Desire, Obsession, Madness, and Murder are a tragedy. This sad tale is a tragedy of Shakespearean scope and dimension—although this author demurs to include talent. Although the extraordinary music score of “Queen of the Murder Scene” by master composers and lyricists Mses. D. Villarreal, P. Villarreal, and A. Villarreal provides a granite bedrock upon which the author was able to construct this story. The Queen. The Crimson Queen —La Reina Carmesí. Laia Luna Saia, through no fault of her own, was born into and existed on the dark end of reality. Her landscape of chaos was a bleak black-and-gray topography of paradoxes and contradictions, where truth was a stranger, and love was beyond her grasp. —Richard T. Serrano