A Ballad of Love and Glory

<b>2023 International Latino Book Award Winner</b><BR><b>Finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters’s Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Fiction</b><BR><BR><b><i>A Long Petal of the Sea</i></b><b> meets <i>Cold Mountain</i> in this “epic and exquisitely wrought” (Patricia Engel, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author) saga following a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight, at first for their survival and then for their love, amidst the atrocity of the Mexican-American War—from the author of <i>The Distance Between Us</i>.</b><BR><BR><i>A forgotten war. An unforgettable romance.</i><BR><BR> The year is 1846. After the controversial annexation of Texas, the US Army marches south to provoke war with México over the disputed Río Grande boundary.<BR><BR> Ximena Salomé is a gifted Mexican healer who dreams of building a family with the man she loves on the coveted land she calls home. But when Texas Rangers storm her ranch and shoot her h