A brand new Western novel from C. Wayne Winkle! Following the Civil War, Ten St. John comes home to find his mother dead and his father gone West. He goes after his pa to let him know it’s just the two of them now. Along the way, he begins hearing about someone other than his father who may be traveling with him. He also begins finding out a lot of new things about his pa. The question is: Will he find his pa, and will he be who Ten thinks he is?

The second book in the tremendous popular “Tennyson ‘Ten’ St. John Western” series from C. Wayne Winkle! Ten St. John continues his search for his father, this time heading for Las Vegas, NM, where he heard his father and a gunfighter, Noble Blake, were headed. But he doesn’t get there for a while. He runs across more trouble with Apaches and scalp hunters. After rescuing an Apache woman, Lolotea, from scalp hunters, he takes her back to her village. Along the way, he kills a mountain lion with a knife. This earns him a scar on his face and a new Lion Killer. Lolotea nurses him through a severe infection and decides to travel with him. Circumstances prevent Ten from refusing this. Several adventures in Las Vegas and Santa Fe, NM, and a trip through the wilderness to Phoenix, Arizona Territory, end up with one he thought a friend turning on him. Still, he continues pursuing his father. And Noble Blake.

Starting out for Tucson, Ten and Lolotea are married by a traveling preacher. Ten finds out his Pa went to Salt Lake City, so they head that way. After crossing the Colorado River, Ten has to take a job as Deputy Sheriff of Kanab, Utah. He stops a major bank robbery, then is accused of stealing a horse. This is simply a cover allowing Lolotea to be kidnapped by a self-important Mormon Elder. When the Elder doesn’t show for the trial, Ten is released. He faces hostile Utes, a vengeful old man and his sons, and near death from wounds in his search for Lolotea. An old man from his Pa’s past comes along and helps him rescue Lolotea. The old man is killed in a shoot-out with past enemies, but lives long enough to give Ten some confusing news.

Ten St. John and Lolotea travel to Denver with an opportunity to finally meet up with his Pa, Noble Blake. But do they? There are many obstacles in Ten’s way. Greatest among these is the fact that a large number of bounty hunters seem to be closing in on Noble Blake. Can Ten catch up to him in time? Or will he fall to the guns of the bounty hunters? And the bounty hunters affect him and Lolotea as well. She’s kidnapped and Ten has to rescue her. Or can he?

Building a ranch in new country is a chancy thing. There are problems galore; some of those problems can turn deadly. Ten, Lolotea, and his pa, Wes, find this to be true in Wyoming. After settling on great land for raising cattle and horses, they are hit with obstacles that take a disastrous turn. Betrayal and death are two of them.