Fleming Community Library

Shawn Starbuck is hired by a sheriff's widow to avenge the death of her husband.

In 1861 seventeen-year-old Abbie Garrett, living on Staten Island with her Southern mother and Yankee father, finds herself drawn firmly into the growing conflict between the North and the South with the arrival of her cousin Lorena from Charleston and the return from Atlanta of the two McIntyre brothers, the elder of whom has always had a special place in Abbie's heart.

"When land promoter Rodney Gallant comes to Nebraska and tries to tie up water rights around Silver Lake, Jim Carlin hoped to head off trouble peacefully with a ranchers' meeting until a bushwhacker's bullet tried to keep him from the meeting. Now it's obvious that trouble is already there and Gallant is willing to use violence to get what he wants"--Provided by publisher.

When Twig Tully takes over running his invalid father's giant OT ranch, he encounters such troubles as blizzards and cattle rustlers, but when he learns his misfortune is not entirely accidental, he must keep fighting or risk losing everything to a man who hates him with a vengeance.