A Ballad of Love and Glory / Corrido de Amor Y Gloria (Spanish Edition): Una Novela
Reyna Grande
A Ballad of Love and Glory / Corrido de Amor Y Gloria (Spanish Edition): Una Novela
Reyna Grande
Una guerra olvidada. Un romance inolvidable.
El ano es 1846. Despues de la controvertida anexion de Texas, el ejercito de los EE. UU. marcha hacia el sur para provocar la guerra con Mexico por la disputada frontera del Rio Grande. Ximena Salome es una talentosa curandera mexicana que suena con construir una familia con el hombre que ama en la codiciada tierra que llama hogar. Pero cuando los Texas Rangers asaltan su rancho y matan a tiros a su esposo, sus suenos se reducen a cenizas. Prometiendo honrar la memoria de su esposo y defender a su pais, Ximena usa sus habilidades curativas como enfermera del ejercito en el frente de la devastadora guerra.
Mientras tanto, John Riley, un inmigrante irlandes en el ejercito yanqui desesperado por ayudar a su familia a escapar de la hambruna que devasta su tierra natal, esta asqueado por la guerra injusta y las atrocidades indescriptibles contra sus compatriotas por parte de oficiales nativistas. En un audaz acto de desafio, cruza a nado el Rio Grande y se une al ejercito mexicano, una desercion que se castiga con la ejecucion. Forma el Batallon de San Patricio, una banda de soldados irlandeses dispuestos a luchar a muerte por la libertad de Mexico. Cuando Ximena y John se encuentran, surge entre ellos una peligrosa atraccion. A medida que la guerra se intensifica, tambien lo hace su pasion. Arrastrados por fuerzas con el poder de cambiar la historia, luchan no solo por el destino de una nacion sino tambien por su futuro juntos.
Desgarradora y lirica, la fascinante saga de Reyna Grande, inspirada en hechos reales y figuras historicas, da vida a estos dos personajes inolvidables e ilumina un momento en gran parte olvidado en la historia que impacta la frontera entre Estados Unidos y Mexico hasta el dia de hoy. ?Sobreviviran Ximena y John al caos de esta amarga guerra, o su amor sera devorado junto con la tierra que luchan por defender?
A forgotten war. An unforgettable romance.
The year is 1846. After the controversial annexation of Texas, the US Army marches south to provoke war with Mexico over the disputed Rio Grande boundary. Ximena Salome is a gifted Mexican healer who dreams of building a family with the man she loves on the coveted land she calls home. But when Texas Rangers storm her ranch and shoot her husband dead, her dreams are burned to ashes. Vowing to honor her husband’s memory and defend her country, Ximena uses her healing skills as an army nurse on the front lines of the ravaging war.
Meanwhile, John Riley, an Irish immigrant in the Yankee army desperate to help his family escape the famine devastating his homeland, is sickened by the unjust war and the unspeakable atrocities against his countrymen by nativist officers. In a bold act of defiance, he swims across the Rio Grande and joins the Mexican Army - a desertion punishable by execution. He forms the St. Patrick’s Battalion, a band of Irish soldiers willing to fight to the death for Mexico’s freedom. When Ximena and John meet, a dangerous attraction blooms between them. As the war intensifies, so does their passion. Swept up by forces with the power to change history, they fight not only for the fate of a nation but for their future together.
Heartbreaking and lyrical, Reyna Grande’s spellbinding saga, inspired by true events and historical figures, brings these two unforgettable characters to life and illuminates a largely forgotten moment in history that impacts the US-Mexico border to this day.
Will Ximena and John survive the chaos of this bitter war, or will their love be devoured along with the land they strive to defend?
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