"When small band of settlers seems to vanish into thin air from their camp in the Black Hills, the army asks Skye Fargo to find out what happened. Unfortunately, he's also saddled with a young greenhorn officer with too much starch and not enough experience. But the tenderfoot is about to learn from the best-- while the Trailsman is about to go up against something much worse".

"Skye Fargo is playing bodyguard to 'America's Sweetheart,' stunning actress Kathleen Barton. She had the bad judgment to publicly, brutally spurn the attentions of notorious 'Frisco power-broker Zack Lomax, ruining his reputation and his livelihood. Now he wants revenge. And unless the Trailsman keeps both eyes peeled, Lomax is going to give his client a final curtain" -- from publisher's web site.

"The Archaletta Swamp is the last place Fargo wants to be. The terrain is dirty, dangerous, and deceptive, and the locals are worse. But he agreed to guide a government party on a peace mission to the Kilatku tribe, if they can make it through. Too bad for the Trailsman that the deadliest predators in this swamp walk on two legs" .