Tohua!
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COMING THIS SPRING!
He was a soldier fighting for a future that betrayed him. Now he must become a ghost to survive its memory.
In the blood-soaked deserts of the Mexican Revolution, Antonio Montiel is a man caught between two worlds. As a Yaqui warrior, he fights for the return of his ancestral lands, guided by his grandfather’s spiritual teachings of the “First Silence” and the ever-watching ancestors. As a soldier, he is shaped by the brutal, pragmatic violence of a war that values bullets over bloodlines.
When his raiding party is annihilated by a single, unnervingly young American marksman, Antonio is the only one left standing. Spared by a confounding act of mercy from the boy-killer, he is spiritually shattered. This single moment of grace becomes a curse, setting him on a path of exile that will drag him from the battlefields of Sonora to the green hell of Yucatán’s slave plantations.
To endure, Antonio must shed his name and his past, becoming something more than a man—a ghost who walks the high ridges, a watcher who listens to the whispers of the mountain itself.
From the author of The Memory Keepers comes a brutal, lyrical, and unflinching origin story in the vein of Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry. It is a haunting exploration of survival, vengeance, and the price of walking a different path.