The Blood of Others by Charity Eleson

 

Today, in the spotlight is The Blood of Others — a haunting historical novel set against the true events of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre.

✓ Inspired by real events that changed the American West

✓ A hidden truth buried beneath Mountain Meadows

✓ A boy forced to choose between survival and conscience

✓ A community bound together by silence

✓ History, loyalty, and the cost of belonging

✓ A coming-of-age story set against a devastating massacre

✓ Secrets that could cost everything

Check out the blurb:

On September 11, 1857, nearly 140 unarmed men,
women and children are slaughtered in Mountain Meadows, Utah. Those killed were part of the Fancher wagon train on its way from Arkansas to California. They had stopped in Mountain Meadows to rest their animals before the final trek over the Mojave Desert. After the massacre, Mormon families living and farming in the region rapidly coalesce around a story perpetuated by church leaders that a clan of Paiutes in the region is responsible for the murders. But, Malachi—a 15-year-old Shoshone boy bought and owned by a local Mormon farmer—knows the truth of what happened and realizes he can never reveal it if he wishes to live. Concealing that truth becomes increasingly difficult as events spin beyond his control, endangering him and those he loves. He is pushed to the breaking point when his two friends, a Paiute boy and a Mormon girl, imperil their own lives by trying to help him. It is then that he discovers strength he did not believe he had. The Blood of Others is set against the backdrop of true events. It explores the fatal compromises humans make to be accepted, and the courage that the power of love bestows.

The Blood of Others is available in both #Kindle and paperback. You can pick up your copy HERE.

Charity Eleson lives with her husband in the country just outside of Madison, Wisconsin. She is the author of Blessing's Key, Volume I of The Silver Thread Trilogy and Wayward Home. Wayward Home was awarded the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Honorable Mention in 2024. She is currently at work on completing the second and third novels in The Silver Thread Trilogy. When she is not writing, she spends much of her time outside gardening, hiking and enjoying the wonders of the earth.