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

Something called the Medicine Lodge Treaty, a series of three agreements signed with the Southern Plains tribes, came only two years after the Little Arkansas Treaty. Although the terms of the first pact were never implemented, Medicine Lodge reduced the size of the non-existent reservations by ninety per cent, and banned the tribes from crossing to the north side of the Arkansas under penalty of being declared hostile, which meant they were fair game for the army. Not many settlers in the vicinity of Yanube City took comfort in the news.


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