Blood & Hooves

<p><strong>Blood & Hooves: La Muerte del Creador</strong></p><p></p><p>The follow-up to the breakout novel <em>Blood & Hooves.</em></p><p></p><p>This is not a revenge story. It is a dismantling.</p><p></p><p>Ernesto Valdez does not want the creature he engineered returned. He wants the myth erased.</p><p></p><p>The beast was meant to remain a nameless experiment not a living legend. Instead he was given the one thing his maker never imagined: a family a girl who refuses to give him back to the dark and a name. Pineapple.</p><p></p><p>From the backwood barns of Ohio to the Texas borderlands Ellie and her inner circle operate in silence peeling the scaffolding out of the cartel's spine. Serene ghosts their networks. Perry breaks their routes. Pineapple becomes the reckoning no one expects.</p><p></p><p>They call her <em>la chica con el burro</em> - a rumor turned warning. By the time her name reaches the men who sign the ledgers damage has already replaced certainty.</p><p>The turning point hangs from a lonely highway billboard. It is not spectacle but jurisdiction. After that Ellie stops being a disruption and becomes the variable their playbook cannot contain.</p><p></p><p>The response is escalation: ghost-wire transmissions fortified sites trophies staged as taunts and surveillance meant to rattle her into view.</p><p>Ernesto builds a stage and dares her to step into it believing she will obey the rules he wrote. She does not enter wars she has not already mapped. She rewrites them one cut at a time.</p><p></p><p><strong>Haunting violent and strangely beautiful LA MUERTE DEL CREADOR is the unflinching continuation of the Blood & Hooves saga.</strong></p>