Slight crease at bottom of first two inside pages. For Lije Stuart, the killing of his grandfather is an image burnt deeply into his mind - a twenty-year old brutality that continues to divide his family in anger. Between his father, the Cherokee chief The Blade, and his uncle, Kipp Gordon, lies an emnity as vast as the land of the Cherokee itself. Now, as a Harvard law graduate, Lije should be free to choose his own destiny. But in the legacy of hate passed down from father to son, he is compelled to return to Cherokee territory - leaving behind his childhood sweetheart Diane Parmalee, the beautiful daughter of a US Army officer. With the onset of civil war, a conflict where brother already fights brother, the Cherokee vendetta threatens to explode at any moment and to tear Lije and Diane apart forever. Yet as old certainties are buried in the search for new freedoms, it could also be an opportunity - for the feud to be resolved, for the Stuarts and Gordons to live in peace once again - but one which will demand the most heart-wrenching sacrifices...

Fiction Cherokee American-Civil-war