Book Summary

Dale Van Every’s soaring adventure saga of the untamed Kentucky wilderness, a savage woman and the young frontiersman who set out to conquer them both…

They weathered the brutal winter of ‘79 in an isolated cave deep in the Kentucky wilderness: Adam Frane, backwoodsman, rifleman, soldier; and Nita, the proud, passionate woman who had rejected her civilized past for the life of a Cherokee squaw. They shred that cruel season knowing that, when the thaws came, Adam would return to Trace’s Landing and to Cynthia, the faithful young widow who waited for him there; knowing, too, that Nita would try to keep him—with all the savage passion that had earned her the name…

One of Dale Van Every’s most exciting historical novels…filled with the raw emotions and rich adventures of America’s untamed past…

“Fascinating, vivid, real!”—The New York Times