Blood to Rubies

<p class=ql-align-justify>Rhapsodic and sensuous. Savage and tender. <em>Blood to Rubies</em> 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 1500-mile exodus to the Canadian border-the medicine line-to join Sitting Bull in freedom he feels complicit in their demise.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>          </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Blood to Rubies</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> has already garnered early praise from </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>New York Times</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> bestselling authors calling the book brilliant heartbreakingly beautiful unforgettable and a riveting debut.</span></p>