A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week and one of Library Journal's Hot Debuts for SummerPreacher's son Angel Woolsack flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, and settles with his adopted brothers on West Florida's rough frontier where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French. A remarkable portrait of a young man seizing his place in a violent new world, The Blood of Heaven captures the energy and wildness of a young America.
