Midwinter Turns to Spring (Book + Music CD)

Moving Love Story with Spiritual Wisdom Cassidy Hamilton, a San Francisco woman, moves into a Victorian apartment and discovers a hidden drawer tucked behind the baseboard of a built-in china cabinet.  Inside the drawer is the journal of Savannah Curtis, a woman who lived in the same Victorian apartment twenty-six years earlier. The journal reveals the story of Alfonso Madrigál, a Spanish flamenco guitarist, who meets Savannah, an artist and art appraiser, when he seeks to authenticate a painting that is thought to be the work of Pablo Picasso.  However, the painting has a mysterious pentimento that s just beginning to resurface. Neither of them is looking for the other, and yet when Alfonso Madrigál finds himself attending Savannah's art lecture one Indian summer in 1977. Events from that day forward conspire to irretrievably change both their lives and the lives of those who knew them. Midwinter Turns to Spring is a riveting and romantic story that incorporates a glimpse into the exotic, vivacious and sensual Flamenco culture; a dramatic sub-plot set in the South of Spain, marked by intrigue, murder and deception, and a mystery involving an 1897 painting. It also speculates the outcomes of paths taken and not taken, as well as the punishments and rewards of those that choose to love.

Maria Veloso is the author of 9 non-fiction books in the health and wellness genre and a business book. She is also a songwriter, who wrote the music and lyrics of 8 songs on the Midwinter Turns to Spring music soundtrack.