In the year 1880, an impoverished, half-English
journalist named Eduardo Dawson, hitching from Mexico
for the American border, meets three fellow travelers
who could not be more different. The first is Phoebe
Surgener, a wry, strong-willed American ranch lady of
obvious wealth and influence. The second is Pleasant
Honeyflower, a seedy, fast-talking phony preacher. The
third is Marcela Sandoval, a magically beautiful Mexican
shepherdess.
After their meeting on the road,
there follows a seemingly endless night that begins with
friendly "get-to-know-you" chatter and evolves as they
cross the desert under a great blood moon into episodes
of passionate young love, depraved sexual violence,
betrayal, and abandonment that will have unimaginable
repercussions for years to come.
As fate will have it,
they all end up in Pleasant Valley, Arizona, and their
chance encounter in the desert will turn out to be a
harbinger of The Pleasant Valley War, the bloodiest land
war in the history of the American West.
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