Geronimo #2

Geronimo, the cunning Apache chief, springs a deadly trap on a cavalry payroll escort in December 1870, but his success draws the full force of the U.S. Army down upon him—and a desperate plan is hatched to turn his own cunning against him. As soldiers and scouts close in across the Southwest, a dangerous mission unfolds that will test whether even Geronimo's legendary ability to outwit his enemies can save him from the jaws of a carefully laid snare.

When a cruel settler named Dad Evans brutally whips the peaceful Apache chief Mangus Colorado over a misunderstanding, he sets in motion a devastating cycle of revenge that claims hundreds of lives and makes Geronimo the most wanted man in the territory. For years the renegade Apache eludes capture—until March 1877, when Apache Agent John P. Clum arrives with a daring plan to bring him in where eleven cavalry troops have failed. This is the tense confrontation between a man of principle and a warrior hardened by treachery.

Kit West, the Queen of Pioneers, discovers a string of grisly murders across the Missouri frontier—families found dead with mysterious red handprints seared into their flesh and the stench of brimstone hanging in the air. As settlers flee in terror, convinced a supernatural devil is claiming victims, Kit must track down the truth behind the horror before Fort York empties and the frontier falls to darkness. What she uncovers will test whether courage and quick thinking can overcome both superstition and a cunning enemy's deadly deception.