Best-selling writing team and archaeologists W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear offer this compelling second novel in their Battle for America series. In 1539, Black Shell, his wife Pearl Hand, and
their fellow exiles try to make a stand against the invasion of the Kristianos and their leader Hernando de Soto. But de Soto doesn't plan to back down easily. "[A] powerful historical tale
."-Publishers Weekly, starred review
Kathleen O’Neal Gear is an author and nationally award-winning archaeologist who has been honored by the United States Congress. She is a former state historian and archaeologist
for Wyoming, Kansas, and Nebraska for the U.S. Department of the Interior. She has twice received the federal government’s Special Achievement Award for “outstanding management” of our nation’s
cultural heritage. With her husband, W. Michael Gear, she is the co-author of many books.
W. Michael Gear is the author or coauthor with his wife, Kathleen O’Neal Gear, of more than fifty published novels. The couple have received the Western Writers of
America 2021 Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contributions to Western Literature, the highest honor bestowed by the nonprofit guild. He is a USA Today and internationally bestselling author
whose work has been translated into twenty-nine languages with over seventeen million copies in print worldwide. Both an anthropologist and archaeologist, he brings extraordinary depth and
complexity to his characters and settings. He can be found at gear-gear.com.
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