A Spur Award?winning Author -- At seventeen, Odell Spurling is taller than most men and all too ready to be treated like one. Then a Comanche raid leaves him without home or family. The girl he loves, Red Wing Wilson, was a Comanche stolen as a child and raised by Texans. Promising to return to her, Odell sets off for revenge. But when the President of Texas arranges to return Red Wing to the Comanche in a gesture of goodwill, Odell finds himself on a mission greater than mere revenge.