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

Spittle sprayed from his mouth. “A warrior’s word to a stinking white-lover means nothing. You aren’t even man enough to fuck a woman. You fuck a white man’s ass.”


My heart sank. Suddenly, I was bone tired; too exhausted to take offense at his words. “I’m man enough to take you down when the army and the militia couldn’t. A man’s word is a man’s word, whoever he gives it to. You are going to pay for this.”


“You will not take me back for the white men to hang me.”


Chapter 115