Apache #1

A Navaho boy's world shatters when Geronimo's raiders kill his father, only to be claimed as a foster son by Chief Nachez, who sees in him the echo of his own lost child. Years of training in the Apache way transform the captive into a skilled warrior, but when he takes the name Lance and rides with Geronimo's band, he discovers the gulf between survival and the blood-soaked code his adopted tribe demands of him.

When the Wise One's band takes refuge in a cursed Spanish mine high in the Superstition Range, they discover a fortune in gold—but it comes with a warning about angry spirits. Josanie's greed leads him to betray his own people to white prospectors, setting off a tragic chain of events that will test the chief's wisdom and the tribe's survival. The mountains themselves become judge and executioner in this tale of ambition, betrayal, and the price of disturbing the past.

When Apache raiders under Grey Coyote's command attack a Comanche village seeking horses, a hasty assault by his co-leader Brave Man turns disastrous—the Comanches have been waiting, and the small band is captured and forced to run a brutal gauntlet. Separated from his dying companion and armed only with cunning, Grey Coyote sneaks back into the enemy camp under cover of darkness, where a Comanche maiden named Sunflower—who once showed him mercy—must choose between her captors and a desperate stranger. Together they steal horses and flee, only to find Brave Man alive and stranded on the desert plateau.