Billy Joe Dare longs to leave his father's farm and go West with the settlers, trappers, and fortune hunters. The wilderness has a powerful call, and one night, he screws up his courage and answers.

The first thing he does is get mauled by a bear. The second is to get rescued by Walks With the Wind, a young Native American warrior with beautiful eyes. Billy Joe learns Walks With the Wind is on a dream-quest to see the Indian Territory over in Oklahoma, where the white man wants to relocate him and his tribe. No one among them has seen this territory and his dream warns him the land there is no good, and his people will regret giving up their ancestral lands to be relocated there.

Together, Billy Joe Dare and Walks With the Wind brave the dangers of the wilderness as well as angry white settlers and slave owners. Billy Joe learns the Indian warrior is not what he seems to be. And they both learn falling in love may be the biggest danger of all in the ruthless world of the American Wild West.



Nick Wilgus sold his first short story to The Horror Show Magazine at the age of seventeen and has been writing ever since. And, as it turns out, he has a lot to say.



A Lambda Award nominee for his novel Bilal's Bread, Wilgus was named one of the best columnists in Mississippi and had an award-winning movie based on his first novel, Mindfulness and Murder.



A former newspaper editor, Wilgus is a proud dad who lives in Tupelo, Mississippi, right down the street from where Elvis grew up.



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