The Texan #12

When a blood-lusting renegade tampers with the Sioux peace ritual to spark war, Hawk Knife discovers a treacherous lie at the heart of the conflict—and finds himself caught between proving the truth and preventing thousands of lives from being lost. Disgraced and banished by his own chief, this stalwart young buffalo hunter must race against time to expose the real culprit before the palefaces and Sioux nations clash beyond redemption. The fate of both peoples rests on whether Hawk Knife can uncover what truly happened and return before war becomes inevitable.

Terry Donovan and Willie Andrews push a hundred head of longhorns toward Fort Hooker in Indian Territory, where the anxious inhabitants are waiting for their beef ration—a tense delivery that requires Terry to draw on his captive years among the Cheyenne to prevent a stampede. When a drunken cowhands named Al Grinnel creates trouble at the fort and later threatens a young homesteader named Susan Leonard, Terry must stand up to him, setting off a chain of events that leads to an unlikely encounter and a promise made under the Kansas stars.