Apostle's Creede

Five years after surviving the Battle of Little Bighorn, Cord McBride has traded his cavalry uniform for a guide's wage, leading travelers through the dangerous Colorado Territory. When wealthy businessman Samuel Morrison hires him to escort his party to the silver boom-town of Creede, Cord expects nothing more than another routine job. But nothing about this journey is routine. Morrison's beautiful daughter Catherine harbors dangerous secrets. His nervous associate Fielding jumps at shadows. And Elena Morales, the mysterious woman who joins them in Trinidad, carries her own agenda—and her own ghosts. As Cord guides his party through Ute territory and Colorado's treacherous high country, he stumbles onto a conspiracy that reaches from mountain mining camps to the halls of power in Washington. Railroad men are stealing Native land, murdering anyone who stands in their way, and his clients are at the heart of it all. Caught between honor and survival, Cord must decide: fulfill his contract to a corrupt employer, or risk everything to expose the truth? In the Colorado mountains, that choice could cost him his life.