With southern secession from the Union looming in the East, the doomed Apaches in the West are determined to die fighting, taking with them as many of their hated enemy as they can. But Lt. Joshua Barlow is willing to defy the whole U.S. Army to fight the Apaches on his own terms.

Author Jason Manning's Apache Storm was a success with fans and critics alike. The story continues in this rousing sequel, as U.S. Lieutenant Joshua Barlow resigns his commission to live on the frontier with his Apache wife Oulay, daughter of the great chief Cochise. At last, he has found true love, happiness, and harmony. But trouble is brewing. When a peaceful group of Apaches is slaughtered by white renegades, Cochise prepares his warriors for retaliation. Only Barlow can stop the bloodshed from escalating into an all-out Apache war.

Kiannatah, a Netdahe warrior, falls in love with a half-breed woman and attempts to settle into the uneasy peace of his mountain hideout. But the encroachment of white settlements on the forced borders of Apache lands is fanning already simmering hostilities. Given free rein to control the Apache problem, General Nelson Miles pursues a war party into Mexico, bringing frontier specialist Joshua Barlow along as his campaign guide. But when Kiannatah's love is murdered by the bluecoats, the Apache embarks on his own campaign of vengeance-a blood feud that will result in a final reckoning between the Army's best Apache hunter—and the fiercest Netdahe warrior of them all.