Heart-Scarred

By Theo Czuk

2014 Laramie Award winner for Best Literary Western. A novel set in the 1860s Wyoming Territory. The story of a White boy, Rory Casso, reared by the Hunkpapa Indian tribe, sets out as a young man to find his home. He and his partner Juke Bauque, a Boston-educated half-breed of Indian/ Black slave, are payroll runners. Against a band of notorious outlaws, and Indians, faces thick with the paint of war, with time and weather against them, they fight for their lives and the life of Rory's beloved Bronwyn as she negotiates the wilds of these western reaches.An award winning novelist and critically acclaimed songwriter, Theo has served time as a musician, an author, a councilor, a canoe guide, a social worker, a sculptor, a teacher, a pauper a poet a pawn and a king (well, not so much the king).Reared on the humble back streets of Detroit, Theo has settled in Oregon and spends his time mulling the green of the great Northwest with his wife, Pi, and their pup, Paisley. Visit Theo at:Webpage: www.tedczuk.comMusic: www.reverbnation.com/theoczukFacebook: https://www.facebook/theoczuk

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1724110969
• ISBN13: 9781724110961
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.6" x 5.3"