Lozen, a beautiful and revered Apache warrior and shaman, fights bravely for the freedom of her people, but when Rafe Collins, an adventurer and war veteran, forms an unlikely bond with the Apaches, Lozen's life is changed forever.

Besting the boys of her tribe at every turn-running, wrestling and other contests-a young Apache girl is given the choice for warrior training. Strong and resourceful, Lozen's mysterious Power of the Blue Hands catapults her into a role of leadership. When the Mexicans and White Eyes invade her homeland, she is challenged to interpret that power. Great chiefs come to rely on her tactics and strategy, and in her dual role as fierce fighter and healer, she soon becomes the most revered woman in all of the Apache Nations. Wisdom and her connection to the natural world and Great Spirit, guide her on her path. Along the way, a lone warrior, Gray Wolf, visits her village and Lozen marks him as hers. But can she help the man who carries her love in the rivers of his heart? And will she be strong enough to lead her people against the new dangers they face? The wilderness is savage-but even more so is man. Stan Gordon lives with his wife Linda, in Tucson, Arizona.

Snakewater, the oldest Cherokee in her village, serves as the tribal shaman until a young woman, grieving over the death of her infant, blames the elderly woman for the death, a case that is complicated when a warrior dies by his own knife in her hut and his brother mysteriously drowns, in the latest installment in the popular Spanish Bit saga. Reprint.