When mixed-blood
army scout Peter MacLoon is caught in the middle of the short-lived Dakota
Uprising he realizes there are two sides to every story—and both sides want him
dead. Son of a Dakota mother and his father a Scottish trader, whites don’t
trust him, and the Indians don’t, either.
But Peter makes a
promise to two women, both of them alone in the wild territory, that he will
see them to safety. Believing he’s done the right thing for beautiful Emma
Foster, he travels on to complete his mission for the army. But he stumbles
upon a white captive that he must free—and when he does, he vows to keep her
safe until he can return her to the world she was stolen from years earlier.
Keeping his word
may be the death of him when she is captured again by marauding Indians, and he
must face the GUNS OF THE PRAIRIE to save her—or die trying.
EXCERPT
No change
in the stoic Indian’s expression was evident from the time I pulled a gun on
him to the time I gave him food. He picked up the small sack and disappeared
silently into the dark woods.
“You
could have killed him,” Jacques whispered.
“That’s
right.”
“He could
have killed you,” he added.
“Also
true.”
Jacques
was quiet, propped up on an elbow, looking thoughtfully at me for a moment
before he spoke again. “You pity the Indian.” From his tone, it was unclear
whether he approved or found it offensive.
“Hunger
changes a man,” I said. “When a man has been hungry long enough, he becomes a
wild beast.”
“So, when an Indian is a
little hungry, you'll feed him. But when he is very hungry, you'll shoot him.” Jacques
shrugged, rolled over, and went back to sleep.
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