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"The exciting, explosive new series from the bestselling author of The Plainsman western series begins with The Covenant... It was a time of uncertainty in the infancy of the growing nation. The wild west was open and beckoning to displaced men and families, and many chose to travel to the unsettled frontier, dreaming of new homes, land, and even riches. But few reckoned on those that had lived in those lands for centuries, the native peoples, Blackfoot, Crow, Sioux, and more. Elijah McCain, fresh from the Union army where he had attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel with the Mounted Rifles, the cavalry unit under General Sherman, had returned home to find his wife on her deathbed, but pleading for her twin sons. She elicited a promise, a covenant, from her husband, "Find my boys, bring them home." And Eli made that covenant. Holding her hand as she slipped from life, he promised he would bring her sons, his stepsons, home one way or the other. But would that promise be the undoing of dreams, lives, and more? TAGLINE: Her final wish has become his life's mission..."--

"Wherever he looked, he saw everything through the lens of his commitment, the Covenant he made with his wife to find her twin boys, deserters from the Union Army during a time of war. But in the wild of the frontier, in a time of discovery, conflict, and more, fate continually dealt him a difficult hand. Wherever he went, conflict put him in the middle of strife, hardship, and battle. First, against the rampaging Sioux under Red Cloud, the chief determined to rid the territory of all white men. Then against godless outlaws as they stole gold claims and killed prospectors. Add to that lethal mix the self-appointed Vigilantes, and he had to deal death with lead with his Cold and his Winchester. Yet he continued his journey, rescuing desolate and desperate youngsters, helping those in need, making friends and enemies, and believed he was on the trial of his sons. But would he find them in time, or would they heed the lure of riches and the voices of Sirens and go astray?" -- page [4] of cover.

"The great Northwest-land of the Nez Perce, Yakama, Nisqually and Muckleshoot peoples and a land that beckoned settlers and the remnants from the gold fields. But it had been ravaged by the Indian wars of 1855 and the years following. The Civil War was over, though not all was forgotten nor forgiven. Renegades were committed to making their mark against the Union. It was into this conflict that Elijah McCain's search for his missing sons brought him. That hunt would take him into the scablands, across the desolate plains, to join a freighter wagon train to cross the Cascade Mountain Range by way of the Naches Trail, the most treacherous and deadly route known at the time-made more so by an attack on a wagon train, leaving a massacre in the wake. The same renegades set their sights on a gold-carrying wagon train, but they had not reckoned on a man like former Union Colonel Elijah McCain, and that was to be their mistake, or perhaps Elijah's." --

Bestselling author B.N. Rundell continues the action in book six of his western classic series, following Elijah McCain on a search for his missing sons...Former Union Colonel Elijah McCain wants nothing more than to bring his stepsons home just as he promised their mother on her deathbed. But it turns out finding rebellious young, Union Army deserters is harder than McCain imagined. After chasing the boys across the Wild West and losing them to a clipper ship, he soon discovers that they escaped to Monterey, California. In an attempt to catch up with his sons before they disappear again, McCain joins up with a band of ranchos that are moving hundreds of horses north for General Sheridan and Colonel Custer. If he plays his cards right, a reward large enough to get him and his sons home will be at the ready. He only has to survive thirteen hundred miles of wilderness, as well as restless and violent natives who are looking to run everyone from their lands.Imminent danger has never scared McCain from his mission, and he won't let the potential of losing his scalp deter him this time.