The acclaimed author of Reap the Whirlwind continues the saga of Jonah Hook with a gritty novel of honor, war and redemption on the majestic American frontier. Returning from the Civil War, Hook discovers his wife and kids have been kidnapped, and he sets out on the bloody trail west to rescue them.

In the early 1800s, a Kentucky farm boy abandons the security of home, and his girlfriend, for a life of adventure. At 16, Titus Bass runs away to become a deckhand on a Mississippi flatboat, the first of many frontier escapades. But he tires of adventure and becomes a blacksmith.

Bestselling American frontier novelist Terry C. Johnston has created an extraordinary, authentic saga of war, loss, and human struggle. This masterwork captures the complex, bloody tapestry of a land of men unchecked by the law, of native warriors continually betrayed, and of ever-expanding railroads.