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BLOOD TO RUBIES
My debut historical novel,  published September 19, 2023, has already made TOP TEN AMAZON bestseller, won
numerous awards, including BOOK OF THE YEAR, and is critically acclaimed by NYT bestselling authors. 
See what all the excitement is about! 

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BLOOD TO RUBIES VIDEO

For sound, please click the note icon in the bottom right of the video.

Special thanks to Peter Buffett for use of this track from Kevin Costner's 500 Nations.

Available at Book Stores & on Amazon

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Thank you Chicago radio station, WRLR-FM & "Word of Mouth" host, Jim Wunderlich, for a great one-hour interview about Blood to Rubies!
Listen to the Feb. 1, 2024 interview at this YouTube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep_57YuWd1o&pp=ygUPYmxvb2QgdG8gcnViaWVz
 

ABOUT BLOOD TO RUBIES

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Blood to Rubies is the scorching saga of injustice, love, and redemption in the western wilderness. A young frontier photographer goes West to escape the Civil War draft and settles in the Bitterroot Mountains, ancestral home of the Nez Perce Indians. There he becomes obsessed with a young Irish pioneer woman he spies swimming nude in a mountain lake. He comes to admire the Nez Perce and photographs the young leader, Chief Joseph, and a Nez Perce woman warrior (based on a real historical person). Their stories tangle in a ruthless convergence of fates. As he chronicles Chief Joseph’s desperate struggle to save his people and their harrowing 1,500-mile exodus to the Canadian border—the medicine line—to join Sitting Bull in freedom, he feels complicit in their demise. Blood to Rubies has already garnered early praise from New York Times bestselling authors, calling the book "brilliant," "heartbreakingly beautiful," "unforgettable,"  "a riveting debut," "phenomenal," and "destined to be a classic."

Welcome Book Clubs❣️❣️

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 I  love book clubs and book clubs love Blood to Rubies❣️
You are the heart and soul of  Blood to Rubies'  readers❤️ Thank you so much for your wonderful comments and feedback. Download my  in-depth discussion guide here:  
BTRBookClubGuide.pdf
See the Blood to Rubies menu below and view other book club gatherings & what they are saying about Blood to Rubies at
New Novel/Book Clubs in the menu.  I hope you'll share your feedback and club photographs at: bloodtorubies@deborahhufford.com


Try This Nez Perce-Inspired Menu for Your Book Club  Meeting!

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