of Sterling Quality

Book Five

Beyond Shining Times

~ ~ ~ The Missing Years ~ The Missing People ~ ~ ~

Buckland LeRoy Kavanaugh, an aging man from a time when beaver did shine

Soolie, an ex-slave from Georgia who loved him

Charley Paul Standing Horse Sterling, a young man with a heritage from two worlds, vastly apart in the 1880s, being raised by the mountain man and the ex-slave.

These people were surrounded by the elegance of the Sterling House and all it stood for. Yet, when the uncivilized actions of a refined lady from the South erupted into violence against Charley Paul Standing Horse, the old man from the mountains and the ex-slave knew, if he was to survive civilization, they must leave the Sterling House and Denver City.

All Buck knew was the wilderness. All Soolie knew was to follow him. All Charley Paul Standing Horse knew . . . was uncertainty.