Santiago's Secret (Laramie #1)

Santiago Scott has been called a breed his whole life. He was raised by Santana, a Sioux chief after his parents were killed in a raid across the border of the United States. He loved growing up learning knowing how to ride a horse, to track any animal or man, and how to survive in the west. He grew to be a rather large man…men looked up to him not just because of how large he was, but because he treated his fellow men fairly and justly with his own code of justice.

He is used to a lonely existence, but then he witnesses a Conestoga wagon overturning coming up his mountain. He goes to help and sees that the man driving the wagon is dead. The woman he is married to, is crying and she has two small children with her. He helps her find a place to live on his mountain and get supplies. He helps her get meat and plant a garden. He becomes friends with the woman…and then finds that she is pregnant with an unborn baby.

Winter comes and he is forced to help her deliver the baby, protect them from robbers coming to take what her husband hid in their wagon, other Indians coming to hide on his mountain, and the white men in the town of Laramie protesting his living on the mountain at all. They didn’t like breeds and Indians living so close to them…they might attack their town and scalp them at any time.

How does Santiago protect the children on the mountain and remain living where he’s built his home and lived where he had for the last ten years? Will he tell them that he’s not a breed, but a man simply raised by the Indians and knows their ways? Will he have to move and give up his lifestyle? Or will he dig in and fight for his right to life where he wants to live?