Born into a society tolerant of homosexuals, River Otter is confused by the white culture’s persecution of such men. As the war begins to wind down, Otter leaves the only home he has ever known to help Major James Morrow, commandant of Ft. Yanube, build a farm north of the fort. He begins a new life with the handsome major while coming to grips with growing hostility toward natives and rising danger from a local militia bent on eliminating all bloods from the territory.<br><br>As his physical attraction for the blond soldier slowly grows into a love perilous to both of them, Otter is distracted by personal challenges. As he struggles to survive the social and political upheaval sweeping the plains, can remain true to his own set of values?

River Otter

“Go to your men, Dull Lance, and ride. I’m going to tell whoever comes you traveled north. Ride straight through my fields and then turn in that direction, but try not to do too much damage. Join your men and get out of here. There’s already an army patrol out, but I think they’re south of the Yanube trying to track you from the farm you attacked yesterday. You’d better lay a false trail a distance to the north. Go to Trickling Water and wade downstream to throw them off. Then go home. Go back to the Laramie country.”


“They are looking for me there. That is why I left. They’re hunting me for murder.”


“I’m going to fire my outhouse and claim I came upon you before you could torch the house.”


Lance grunted and went for his pony hidden at the side of the barn. A moment later, he pounded off to the northwest, riding through my plowed fields.


Chapter 63