Blood Moon

By: Brawley, Ernest

In the year 1880, an impoverished, half-English journalist named Eduardo Dawson, hitching from Mexico for the American border, meets three fellow travelers who could not be more different. The first is Phoebe Surgener, a wry, strong-willed American ranch lady of obvious wealth and influence. The second is Pleasant Honeyflower, a seedy, fast-talking phony preacher. The third is Marcela Sandoval, a magically beautiful Mexican shepherdess. After their meeting on the road, there follows a seemingly endless night that begins with friendly "get-to-know-you" chatter and evolves as they cross the desert under a great blood moon into episodes of passionate young love, depraved sexual violence, betrayal, and abandonment that will have unimaginable repercussions for years to come. As fate will have it, they all end up in Pleasant Valley, Arizona, and their chance encounter in the desert will turn out to be a harbinger of The Pleasant Valley War, the bloodiest land war in the history of the American West.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1649797788
• ISBN13: 9781649797780
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Austin Macauley
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Spectacular!

Wow, I was deeply moved by this exciting story, set in the Arizona desert in the 1880's. It's about a beautiful young Mexican shepherdess who is raped and left for dead by a fake preacher and spends the rest of her life seeking vengeance. The author has brought his protagonist to vivid life, along with her involvement in the bloodiest land war in the history of the West. It would make a Great movie!