<p><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">From the bestselling author of The Plainsman<em> </em>Western series comes a 2024 Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite for Historical Fiction-an exciting and explosive new Western series.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">It's a time of uncertainty in the infancy of a growing nation. The Wild West is open and beckoning to displaced men and families, many of whom are traveling to the unsettled frontier, dreaming of new homes, land, and even riches. But few reckon on those who have lived in those lands for centuries-the native peoples. Blackfoot, Crow, Sioux, and more.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Elijah McCain, fresh from the Union army where he had attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel with the Mounted Rifles-the cavalry unit under General Sherman-has returned home to find his wife on her deathbed, pleading for her twin sons. She begs a promise from her husband: </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">Find our boys and bring them home.</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">And so Eli makes a sacred covenant. Holding his wife's hand as she slips from life, he promises to bring their sons home-no matter the cost. Even if it's the undoing of dreams, lives, and much more.</span></p>