Blood to Rubies

REVIEWS “”PHENOMENAL”” … “”SENSUAL”” …  ‘UTTERLY RIVETING”” …””MARK MY WORDS, DESTINED TO  BE A CLASSIC.”” — WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The River We Remember, This Tender Land, and 20 other novels “”A SCORCHING SAGA TOLD WITH ROCK-RIBBED CHARACTERS AND INTIMATE URGENCY, LAYERED BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR.””   –KATHLEEN GRISSOM, New York Times Bestselling Author of Crow Mary, The Kitchen House and Glory Above Everything “”THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW THIS POWERFUL STORY!”” –PETER BUFFETT, Oscar- and Emmy-winning Composer of Dances with Wolves “”Fire Dance”” and 500 Nations, and New York Times Bestselling Author of Life Is What You Make It LITERARY AWARDS FOR BLOOD TO RUBIES BOOK OF THE YEAR – FICTION 2023, American Writing Awards BEST DEBUT FICTION – WINNER , American Writing Awards BEST DEBUT FICTION – WINNER, Firebird International Literary Awards BEST DEBUT FICTION – WINNER , Best Book Awards BEST LITERARY FICTION – WINNER , Firebird International Literary Awards BEST WESTERN FICTION – WINNER, American Writing Awards BEST MULTI-CULTURAL FICTION – WINNER, Best Book Awards SHORT-LISTED, Laramie Award LONG-LISTED, Somerset Award (competition still pending) BESTSELLING ON AMAZON, #11 Native American Literature SYNOPSIS “”Rhapsodic and sensuous.”” “”Savage and tender.”” Blood to Rubies is the scorching saga of injustice, love, and redemption in the western wilderness. A young frontier photographer goes West to escape the Civil War draft and settles in the Bitterroot Mountains, ancestral home of the Nez Perce Indians. There he becomes obsessed with a young Irish pioneer woman he spies swimming nude in a mountain lake. He comes to admire the Nez Perce and photographs the young leader, Chief Joseph, and a Nez Perce woman warrior (based on a real historical person). Their stories tangle in a ruthless convergence of fates. As he chronicles Chief Joseph’s desperate struggle to save his people and their harrowing 1,500-mile exodus to the Canadian border–the medicine line–to join Sitting Bull in freedom, he feels complicit in their demise. Blood to Rubies has already garnered early praise from many New York Times bestselling authors, praising  the debut novel as  “”brilliant,”” “”heartbreakingly beautiful,”” “”unforgettable,”” “”gritty and lush,”” “”a masterpiece of a debut.”” The FOREWORD of Blood to Rubies is written by a descendant of Chief Joseph and former Chair and Chieftain of the Nez Perce Tribe, as well as Founding Board Member of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Allen V. Pinkham, Sr. Other leading Nez Perce elders have endorsed Blood to Rubies , as well. A portion of Blood to Rubies’ sales goes to the Chief Joseph Foundation (CJF) in Idaho for its amazing Mounted Scholars Program, mentoring Nez Perce youth to learn about their tribal culture and horse legacy, as well as empowering them to become first-generation college and trade school students. CJF also sponsors Nez Perce youth to ride the annual Chief Joseph Ride and provides them with Nez Perce-bred Appaloosas for the trek so they can learn about the heroic and historic Nez Perce struggle to remain free. Many of their ancestors fought and died along the trail, so the experience is profound and life-changing for them. Blood to Rubies recounts this amazing saga. — ASIN: B0CBVYPX2X | ISBN13: 9798888240748 | ISBN-13: 979-8888240748