Witchcraft in Rio

By R.B. Romaniuk

A sophisticated man with a life full of exciting adventures around the world, succumbs to the exotic allure of Brazil to fulfill a dream triggered by an hypnotic song that he first heard as a child. His disbelief in the supernatural is then challenged when he meets a beautiful and mysterious woman on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. She is the very image that the song invokes as she seduces him into an hallucinatory romance that haunts him and forces him to re-examine his disbelief in the paranormal.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R.B. Romaniuk
• Release date: May 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005395117

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WITCHCRAFT IN RIO

A Tale of Supernatural Romance in Brazil

by

R.B. Romaniuk

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Witchcraft in Rio

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We all pray that some dreams come true.

SINCE THE GOLDEN AGE of Hollywood, Rio de Janeiro has been a place that invokes images of beautiful sandy beaches and sun-bronzed women and men of impossible beauty and sex appeal. The titillating hint of mystery and romance that lurks in the glow of the Brazilian moonlight has fired the imaginations of many, and every now and then, a child is born somewhere in the world that grows up with a curiosity about what adventures could be awaiting them in the seductive allure of Rio.

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TERRENCE BUTLER WAS BORN in 1954 to very loving, working-class, British immigrant parents in Windsor, Ontario. He was an average child, living a below-average existence. His father toiled his life away on a night shift assembly line at the large car manufacturing plant that employed over half of the city’s population, while his mother did her best to be a loving mom and a caring wife.

With household expenses mounting on top of supporting a wife and child, it always seemed there was never enough money left over from his father’s paycheck for any of the finer things in life, not even a small weekly allowance for Terrence. Throughout his school years, Terrence was envious of his classmates whose parents were better off than his. While they paid for his friends’ camping trips and European excursions during the summer breaks, Terrence grudgingly stayed at home working a neighborhood newspaper route to help his mom and dad make ends meet. He vowed that when he grew up, he’d work hard and save enough money to afford