Walks Always Beside You: A Smoke Tree Series Novel

After eight years in the United States Army, Johnny Quentin, who joined in 1961 on the buddy system with his friend Charlie Merriman, has returned to Smoke Tree without Charlie. Johnny intends to stop only long enough to pay his respects to Charlie's widow and his mother, but Webster Charles, the oldest man in the Mojave Village and the strongest link to the tribe's cultural heritage, has other plans for Johnny. Once those plans are revealed, Johnny stays to honor Charlie Merriman's last request: that Johnny be more than a godfather to the slain soldier's twin sons. Nothing is easy for Johnny, a former Army Ranger followed by his dead and tortured by demons and memories of Vietnam. At the same time, Captain Carlos Caballo, commander of the Smoke Tree Substation of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, is trying to trace the killer of a string of bodies abandoned in the desert. The mysterious and reclusive Chemehuevi Joe also wants to find the killer, but for his own reasons. Circumstances will bring the three men together in the search.Read more