Pioneer

Weston Teague was a youngster when he stood on the front porch and watched his father, a marshal of a local Texas town, die. Marshal William Teague was shot by a man who'd threatened to kill him a few days earlier. The marshal had not taken the threat

When mountain man Beaver Mosely builds a log cabin on Blue Meadow for his bride, Keziah, it looks like the new 20th Century holds nothing but promise. But that is before the newlyweds discover that their land is cursed - stained by the blood of an innocent

The winter winds cried and mourned. The cold, inscrutable mountains kept their own secrets. The nights were dark and long. When the fires had dwindled to ash and embers, the pioneers huddled close, whispered fearsome tales of Lejube Rogue, the white Indian

The pioneers had come West to find homes and riches, instead they found a vast and lonely land, a land fraught with danger, fearsome creatures, and tamahnous, the primal magic no man could tame. As unknowable as the tumtum wawas, the spirit voices of things,