SABOTAGE ABROAD. A LAND GRAB AT HOME. ONE TRUTH TIES THEM TOGETHER.
At nineteen, horseman Jack Boen steps into the legacy his mixed-blood mother, Emilie, left behind.
Dakota Territory, 1892. When a false manslaughter charge falls on his Sioux friend Amos, Jack flees with him across the Atlantic—to a Scottish estate owned by an uncle he’s never met. But McKendrick Manor is no sanctuary. A prized stallion is found dead, a barn burns, and a widening pattern of sabotage and steeplechase intrigue threatens the estate’s future.
Back in Dakota, a greedy rancher prepares to seize Jack’s great-grandmother’s allotment the moment the Sisseton-Wahpeton Reservation opens to white settlement — April 15, 1892. The same day as the Scottish Grand National.
Torn between two worlds, two unfolding mysteries, and one woman who makes leaving unthinkable, Jack must uncover the truth before that date arrives — or lose both his family’s land and the only home he has left.
