Rawley King has just returned from Arizona when he discovers his grandfather, a legendary Indian fighter known as King of the Mounted, wants to see him after years of silence. The old man's reconciliation comes with a charge: Rawley must read the diary and the Bible left to him, and then journey to the Idaho mountains where a gold mine lies hidden, waiting to be claimed. Indian Johnny, the Sergeant's faithful servant, guides Rawley back to those remote fastnesses, seeing in the young man the living image of the master he lost. But the mountains hold more than gold. The Cramer family still dwells there, and some remember Sergeant King with hatred while others recall a forbidden romance from the 1860s that left destinies tangled across generations. When Rawley, an engineer by trade, learns the Cramers are secretly damming the Colorado River to mine gold from the dry riverbed, he must choose whether to help them, a decision that will unravel the truth of his grandfather's past and his own place in it. B.M. Bower crafts a Western adventure that doubles as a meditation on inheritance, showing how the debts of one generation become the burdens of the next.
