Lone Eagle #2

When a driverless stagecoach thunders into town—its horses bearing the marks of a brutal whip—Swift Rider joins Sheriff Steve Blake's posse to track down the culprits and rescue the missing passengers, including Mary Cary, a woman from his past. The trail leads to a skilled whip-wielder with surprising connections to Mary herself, setting off a chain of revelations that will upend everything the town thought it knew about a death from years gone by.

Lone Eagle tells young Little Squirrel the remarkable tale of Hopping Beaver, a fearless hunter who once ventured alone into grizzly bear country—and the terrible price he paid for his courage and refusal to surrender. Through a story of survival against impossible odds, Lone Eagle reveals why the man Little Squirrel has been mocking deserves nothing but respect and reverence among his people.

Lone Eagle faces a crisis when his tribe votes for war against the encroaching railroad despite his counsel for peace, and the hotheaded Silent Knife seizes leadership of the war party. When a brutal ambush unfolds under the full moon, Lone Eagle discovers a shocking betrayal that will set him on a relentless pursuit across the Iron Trail itself.

In his youth, the man who would become Fear No Fire—then known as the son of Falling River—set out on a vision quest to claim his true name, but a jealous rival poisoned his arrow and ambushed him on a mountain cliff, intent on murder. When the drugged warrior's strength surged back in a fury of betrayal, the two braves fought a desperate knife battle at the cliff's edge, each fighting for survival and honor. Lone Eagle settles in to tell Little Arrow how this fateful struggle earned the young man his legendary name.