Swift Arrow #1

When the Lone Rider witnesses Swift Arrow's selection as chief through a mysterious ritual—pulling a magical arrow from stone—he demands to know the secret behind the ceremony. Swift Arrow reveals the legend of a mysterious stranger who saved his people generations ago after they fled massacre and westward defeat, establishing the arrow-in-stone test as proof of a worthy leader's strength and pure heart. Now the Lone Rider must swear a blood oath to protect knowledge that challenges everything he thought he understood about his blood brother's power.

Hermit Slate strikes gold on his remote claim, but word spreads quickly through Red Clay Gulch—and so does trouble. When outlaws learn of his newfound wealth and move to steal it, the Lone Rider finds himself caught in a deadly crossfire, forced to use every trick he knows to survive. As fortune would have it, Hermit Slate proves harder to kill than anyone expected.

Swift Arrow and his tribal chief Sighing Wind arrive at the settlement of the River Tribe, whose people enslave white captives—a practice Swift Arrow openly opposes. When a pale-skinned woman appears during a buffalo hunt searching for her imprisoned father, Swift Arrow's compassion for her plight sets him at odds with the tribe's customs, drawing suspicion and resentment from those around him. Caught between his principles and his precarious position as a guest, Swift Arrow must navigate a dangerous test of courage that will determine whether he and his chief can find their way home.

A stolen gold operation at a frontier mine puts the Lone Rider on the trail of a desperate thief, but what begins as a simple case of disappearing nuggets quickly spirals into murder when Mr. Thompson is found stabbed in the darkness below. As the Lone Rider closes in on his suspect in the Red Shovel Cafe, an unexpected ally—a young woman from the mining families—follows the criminal into the treacherous caverns where the real reckoning awaits.