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Popayán, 1923. A fourth child is born into the Rendón family as Holy Week processions move through streets scented with incense and rain. His mother cradles him with the certainty that God has chosen this one for something. His father counts, again, the futures he can afford to give.
What follows spans generations.
From the cane fields of the Valle del Cauca to the city of Cali and the wide distances of the American West, the Rendón brothers build their lives from what the century allows: faith and stubbornness, ambition and silence, love that cannot be named and grief that never finds one. One gives himself to music and survival. Once crosses an ocean and learns to live with the distance. One spends a lifetime perfecting a surface so immaculate that no one sees the man beneath it.
When their mother's will is read aloud in a lawyer's office smelling of lemon polish and old paper, the reckoning is not beginning. It is simply, at last, acknowledged.
Veiled Halos is a literary, multigenerational family saga with psychological depth about inheritance in every sense: land, faith, grievance, memory, and the stories families tell to survive the ones they cannot tell anyone else.
Some halos are worn. Some are lived in secret. And some, in the end, are simply signed.
About the author
Inger E. Johnson was born and raised in Cali, Colombia, and immigrated to the United States at age fifteen following a period of political unrest in Colombia. Her mother was American and her father was Colombian.She's a recovering banker and financial planner. Along the way, she earned advanced degrees, lived abroad in places including Austria, Chile, and Uruguay, and collected enough life experience tofill more than one novel.But the role she treasures most is being surrounded by a loving family. She credits her parents and brother for giving her strong roots, unwavering love, and the moral compass that continues toguide her life. She is also deeply grateful to be a wife and mom to the best husband and son in the world.Now based in Arizona, Inger serves on her local school district governing board and loves taking long hikes on the Arizona trails, reading, having lunch with friends, podcasting, and coming up with crazy ideas of what she'd like to do next.Veiled Halos draws on her familiarity with Latin America, particularly Colombia, as well as her understanding of institutional power and the human costs that can lie beneath public virtue.If you'd like to stay connected and hear about future books and projects, you can find her at YourBookIsInThere.com
