Heart's Blood

Heart's Blood mixes the epic vistas of the border with its cruel social realities of drug trafficking and human smuggling. It begins in the early 1970s with the book's central character, Tyler McNeil, leaving behind his itinerant life to begin a difficult journey through unexpected parenthood, loss, love, and finally, peace in his old age.

A cast of colorful characters light up and change Ty's life. Mana, an abused, illiterate border crosser, shows up just long enough in his life to bear an ...