“With thrilling worldbuilding, bold writing, and a heroine to root for, Memories of Lucinda Eco has all the elements I’m looking for in a fantasy.” ~ Lauren Kate, New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen series

Somebody cursed Lucinda’s Abuelita.

But who? And why?

And why are the authorities and her family too frightened to investigate?

When Lucinda recognizes she is Abuelita’s only hope for survival, she and her best friend enlist the help of the most unlikely ally, the son of the local gang boss…

…the gang boss Abuelita killed.

Using bruja witchcraft, Lucinda and her friends open a gateway to relive Abuelita’s memories, only to discover terrible secrets and powerful enemies who pose an even greater danger than a single curse.

Living Memories chronicles the life of a true pioneer in her own words. 

With self-deprecating humor and panache, Nellie Gail Moulton writes, “I want to leave something of my innermost self, and to particularly remember the true Pioneer Spirit that distinguished your ancestors and how each helped bring about, step by strange, miraculous, fantastic, preposterous step, the position our family holds today.” 

She tells of crossing Kansas in a covered wagon and being stopped by bandits; of becoming an accountant, school teacher and principal, and giving it up for love; of studying en plein air painting with the California masters; of managing a 22,000-acre cattle ranch, and of founding the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Playhouse, and Laguna College of Art and Design. 

“For there is one thing I believe will never fade into oblivion – beauty in literature, painting, music, the drama…”

Only recently discovered in the family archives, Living Memories is illustrated by dozens of never-before-seen photos from the Moulton family and Moulton Museum.