Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, this is a novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Spring, 1849. Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches takes him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches,...

A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.

Kidnapped, along with her young son, off a train-load of tourists, Miranda Price is held hostage on a remote reservation by Hawk O'Toole (a man desperate to help his people), only to find herself drawn to her aloof,but tender and seductive captor.

The Indians around Fort Laramie, Wyoming are peaceful. Or so it seemed -- until killers ambush a detail of U.S. soldiers and an officer's wife. One man flees the carnage and tells the story -- his own story, an outright lie. When Duff MacCallister and a few brave men go after the attackers, they discover the officer's wife is alive and in the merciless hands of the sadistic warrior Yellow Hawk. To free her, Duff touches off a fierce battle.

Tha Alamo has fallen. The fate of Texas is uncertain. And the strength of one woman's faith is hanging in the balance.