Valley of Shadows

Thank you Blackstone Publishing for this gifted copy.

Happy Sunday! I hope y’all are having a fun Halloween weekend.

Don’t you love it when a book cover incorporates elements from the story? I always find it so neat, and Valley of Shadows has done just that!

𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He’d made his brooding peace with retiring his gun and badge, hiding out on his ranch, and communing with horses and ghosts. But when a gruesome string of murders and kidnappings ravages the town, pushing its volatile mix of Anglo, Mexican, and Apache settlers to the brink of self-destruction, he feels reluctantly compelled to confront both life, and the much more likely possibility of­ ­death, yet again.

As Solitario struggles to overcome not only the evil forces that threaten the town but also his own inner demons, he finds an unlikely source of inspiration and support in Onawa, a gifted and enchanting Apache-Mexican seer who champions his cause, daring him to open his heart and question his destiny.

As we follow Solitario and Onawa into the desert, we join them in facing haunting questions about the human condition that are as relevant today as they were back then: Can we rewrite our own history and shape our own future? What does it mean to belong to a place, or for a place to belong to a people? And, as lonely and defeated as we might feel, are we ever truly alone?

💬 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧?

AOTD: It ended up being way busier than I expected but still as fun month. As for reading, it’s been ho-hum.