Bücher von Bruce Aitchison

Texas Ranger William McKiever is returning to headquarters to turn in his badge to begin a new life as a cattle rancher. The captain of the detachment is going to offer him one last assignment, but the captain is worried, knowing a killer lurks-a gunman who suddenly appears, kills, then disappears. Adding to the captain's concerns is his knowledge that McKiever will take the assignment because of a woman-a woman McKiever had fallen in love with, but who had married his best friend and former partner. The woman, Sara Kincaid, is also burdened. She wants to see McKiever again, but feels guilty because of the danger. Sara's guilt will turn to anguish when the killer and McKiever clash. In desperation, Sara turns to God in prayer, experiencing divine intervention!

During the 1860s, the Oregon and Santa Fe westward out of Independence Missouri were busy travel corridors providing seasonal business for wagon master, Clifford Stokes and his scout, Scott Buchanan. The wagon journey begins along the south fork of the Platte River where potential danger threatens from two unknown groups flanking the wagons while remaining hidden from view. One group is a Kiowa raiding party, the others are fleeing bank robbers in need of provisions. A traveling daughter bound for San Francisco becomes attracted to two men, a suave newspaper man where she is going, and a growing interest in the wagon scout in his element on the frontier. When tragedy strikes, a young worker on the wagon train studying for the ministry answers those difficult questions, why God uses life over death as His tool because of human rebellion. Woven within the novel are different human personalities including social prejudices, a powerful magnet as the story unfolds.