Subject: Apache Indians (Keywords)

Siki is an orphan of the Black Mountain Apache. Her mother was killed by Mexicans three years ago and her father lost in an ambush the winter before that. When Siki witnesses the brutal murder of her little brother Tazhi, she vows to become an apache warrior and avenge her brother's death.

For 70 years the messiahs of death ranged the land, stealing, killing, defying all to wrest this stronghold from them. This is the story of the Apaches and of the men who fought them.

John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with him. That is, until outlaws ride down on them and they must rely on Russell's guns and his ability to lead them out of the desert.

Someone has been murdered, and the distinctive sheath for a weapon, an antique Medici dagger, has been found in Lil's saddlebag. Now she faces trouble on all sides.