Publisher's Synopsis
Book Two in the Ira Dale Series.All Ira Dale wants is to live in peace with his adopted Kootenai people and his woman. Winter is coming, and the workload is heavy. But they'll survive. He took care of the Silver Spine problem, now it's just preparing for the cold. But the Silver Spine mine owners have a different idea. They've found the mother lode, and it happens to be right under the Kootenai village. They don't feel much like dealing with Ira Dale after what he did to their town, but when they're introduced to Hudson Bane, an ex-soldier turned outlaw who offers to get rid of Ira Dale for cheap, they bite.Against Bane and his crew of war-toughened mercenaries, Ira Dale has little chance. Chained, beaten, and hauled down a desolate trail through the Northwest mountains, he will need more than two swinging fists to get out of this alive.
