Midwinter Turns to Spring

"Midwinter Turns to Spring" is the very first novel that comes with its own music soundtrack. (The companion CD -- containing 10 ballads with Flamenco flavor, and 1 instrumental song -- is attached to the inside back cover of the book.) The songs are woven intricately into -- and form a significant part of -- the novel's plot. They serve to intensify the emotional involvement of the reader much like a film score intensifies the emotional appeal of a movie. The author, Maria Veloso, also wrote the original song lyrics, and composed the music for 5 of the ballads. The element of music was purposely included to highlight one of the central themes of the novel -- that of the power of music to communicate love better than mere words can -- as well as music's endless capacity for healing, breaking through pain, bringing us together with those we love, and reconnecting us with our higher selves and our creator.