He was Philip Rainbolt: one-time schoolteacher, Southern gentleman, Confederate officer, frontier fighter …

Now: renegade, alleged murderer, and Kiowa Indian war god, the man they called Sun Boy …

Just a short time ago he had been an army prisoner in the Fort Sill guardhouse, locked up because of a fight over the commandant’s wife. Then he sat a deserter and accused murderer, a prisoner of the Kiowas.\

It had happened so fast. His bizarre escape from the jailhouse, his capture by the Indians, and now his mistaken status as Sun Boy, the savior-god of a tribe reputed to be one of the fiercest of the plains. All he could do to save his skin was to play their game, Philip thought. After all, he had nowhere else to go and perhaps, just perhaps, he was the Sun Boy. And perhaps he could save the Kiowas. All he knew was he was going to try.