As the winner of five Spur Awards, two Wrangler Awards and the Levi Strauss Golden Saddleman Award, Fred Grove is one of the most highly decorated Western writers in history. And his storytelling has never been finer than in this novel.

For most folks, home is a refuge. But not for Jesse Wilder. Because he was forced to serve in the Union Army or die, the people in his home state of Tennessee see him as no more than a galvanized Yankee. And the night raiders terrorizing his homestead will do whatever it takes to run him back out of town-even commit murder.