Blood of Toma

By Lauren Lee Merewether

Book Overview

In the heart of the Aztec Empire, a young priestess faces a fate of honor in death as the New Fire sacrifice for her city of Texcoco.

But Toma survives.

As betrayal within her own people collides with the arrival of strangers from across the sea, grief sends her down a path of vengeance that will carry her into the violence of conquest-and toward a forbidden bond with a Spanish soldier who should be her enemy.

Blood of Toma is a gritty historical saga of revenge, cultural collision, forbidden love, and the struggle to choose hope as everything Toma knows falls apart.

An award-winning historical novel, Blood of Toma was named a Montaigne Medal Finalist, Readers' Favorite YA Thriller Finalist, and Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in Historical Fiction. Foreword Clarion Reviews praised the novel for "bringing order, beauty, and a sense of honor to the Mexica people."

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A Sacred Honor Story Before Lauren Knew What Sacred Honor Was

Blood of Toma was Lauren Lee Merewether's first historical fiction novel-the story where many of the themes that would later define her Sacred Honor Collection first emerged: devotion and duty, love across impossible divides, revenge and forgiveness, sacrifice, and the search for hope after ruin.

Content Disclaimers: Violence, Death, Human and Ritual Sacrifice, Attempted SA, Captivity and Conquest themes, Cultural and Religious Conflict and Themes appropriate to the period.Editorial note: In pursuit of a unique character voice, some portions of this novel contain intentional misuse of grammar and misspelled words. The reader should not mistake these features for a lack of editing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1499382375
• ISBN13: 9781499382372
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"