At seventeen years old Odell Sparling is taller than most men and all too ready to be treated like one. But nothing could prepare him for the Comanche raid that leaves him without a home or family. This girl he loves, Red Wing Wilson, was once a Comanche herself - stolen as a child and raised among Texans. With a promise to return to her, he sets off his revenge. But when the president of Texas attempts to make peace with the Comanche and arranges to return Red Wing to a gesture of goodwill, Odell finds himself in a mission greater than mere average. To get her back he'll have to contend with an unforgiving land, a sword-brandishing Prussian, and a Comanche warrior who has sworn to take his scalp.