Return

Early in the spring of 1864, life suddenly becomes complicated, and more than a little confusing, for Corporal Thomas Buchanan. Returning to Fort Keaerny along the Overland Road, after a brief posting at Fort Laramie, Corporal Buchanan stops at Fort Cottonwood. Expecting a simple visit with old friends, the corporal, instead, finds himself thrust into an odd and troublesome assignment by the commander of the fort.

As a result, Buchanan must embark on a complex and difficult journey, fraught with unexpected twists and turns. It is a ninety-mile journey that will test his mind and his mettle every step of the way as he returns to Fort Kearny.

*****

For almost a year, Captain Jack Connell has been fighting to stabilize the daily operations at Fort Kearny, constantly striving to maintain a command that has suffered under the erratic and ruthless control of Colonel Paul White. For Captain Connell, it has been an exhausting and arduous struggle to return Fort Kearny to its true purpose and mission--and for the most part, he has managed to accomplish that.

And then, quite unexpectedly--and in the space of a single night--Captain Connell finds himself facing a strange and new twist to life as he knows it at Fort Kearny. As he works his way through the confusion that has erupted around him, Jack Connell realizes that, somehow, his life suddenly has a whole new direction. Suddenly, there is a return to a clearer purpose and new hope.

*****

Lieutenant Frank Halliday has his hands full. He has a new Cavalry company to lead. He has been fighting to protect his marriage. And he has been a constant target for a fort commander who thrives on directing his anger and resentment at his perceived enemies. And now, after a long and unsettling chain of events, Frank Halliday is struggling to manage the unexpected twists and turns that life has handed him.

With Isabelle gone from Fort Kearny, with Frankie Harding gone from his life, and with so much of life as he knew it, gone, Frank Halliday finds himself searching for a way to return to the life he once knew.