The Bells of San Juan

The desert town of San Juan breathes slow under a brutal sun, its six mission bells the only measure of time and consequence. When Ignacio Chavez strolls the streets as caretaker of those bells, the town appears frozen in dusty peace. Then gunfire cracks the stillness, and Ignacio must climb to ring the alarm that will shape everyone's fate. A murder has shattered the calm, and now the sheriff, the newcomers, and the schemers all converge on San Juan's one street. Virginia Page, a young doctor seeking purpose, arrives just as the town prepares to crack open. Revolution simmers across the border in Mexico; greedy men plot terror and profit; and the bells will sound for death, for love, for the transformation of everything this parched place has kept hidden. Gregory writes with the stark poetry of the American West, finding violence and tenderness in the same scorching landscape.