Historical Fiction
The Heart of the Country
A homeland cannot be measured by the borders drawn across it.
Between a people and the country claiming their land stands one man’s impossible choice.
As forts rise and promises shift across the American West, a Native man watches familiar country transformed by settlers, soldiers, and agreements written far from the lives they will change.
The Heart of the Country is a story of belonging, resistance, and the cost of surviving when two nations insist the same land belongs only to them.
Brian R. Smith 