From the bestselling authors ofThe Frontiersman, a young man follows the call of the wild to the Rockies, but killers follow him.

Breckenridge Wallace was turning into a true mountain man on the American frontier. As a teenager in Tennessee he killed in self-defense, then left behind the woman he loved. With a gun and trap lines he is learning how to survive in the Rocky Mountains, braving the punishing elements, ruthless outlaws, and forging an uneasy peace with the Indians.

But as dangerous as life is, nothing is worse than a powerful man with a murderous grudge. Breck has left two such men in his pastand they both send cold-blooded killers for hire after him. Now the young frontiersman must fight a whole new kind of enemyarmed with his courage, strength, and raw skills with knife and gun...