SEARCHING FOR EVETTE: A PREQUEL TO VOLCANO RANCH (The Hawkeye Ridge Series)

January 1865. Captain Kirby Prescott expects to return to the brutal battlefields of Virginia—until President Lincoln assigns him a secret mission to map the western territories and report on the people shaping America's future. But when he reaches the Oregon frontier, Kirby is pulled into a far more urgent crisis: the kidnapping of Evette Dumas, daughter of the legendary trapper Frenchie Dumas. With no law in the territory and a ransom deadline approaching, Kirby joins forces with Evette's fierce young brother, War Eagle, to hunt the men who took her. What begins as a rescue becomes a deadly confrontation with greed, betrayal, frontier justice, and international intrigue.

Searching for Evette is a gripping, character-driven prequel to the popular Volcano Ranch, blending the Civil War's international intrigue, western adventure, and the raw struggle to survive in an untamed land.