It is 1831 and Barnaby Skye, the deserter from the British Royal Navy and now a seasoned trapper in the Rocky Mountains, accompanies his Crow wife, Mary Quill Woman -- whom he calls "Victoria" -- to her village on the Yellowstone. There, Victoria succumbs to the entreaties of Jim Beckwourth, the much-honored and wealthy mulatto war chief of the Crows, and accompanies Beckwourth on a raid among the most feared of all the mountain tribes, the Blackfeet.When Victoria is abducted by the Bloods, the deadliest band of Blackfeet, Skye trails her across the border into Canada, where he is still wanted for deserting his ship at Fort Vancouver four years ago. But in an ironic turnabout, Skye himself is taken prisoner by the Bloods, and it is Victoria who now must escape her captors to free the man she truly loves.
Dark Passage (Skye's West, #10)
