It had been twenty years since the Blue and Gray called it quits. Now, a man returns to Laredo to finish the war in a bloodbath of gunpowder and smoke.

Seventeen Apache maidens disappear from the middle of the Arizona desert. It is the work of a group of U.S. Army enlisted men led by the notorious Captain Honorius Crawford. As tribal unrest increases, Powell's Army is dispatched to infiltrate and destroy a nightmare world of south-of-the-border slavers.

Long Henry Banner, marshal of Waco, Texas, was almost killed in a gunfight wi th a stranger. When he was back on his feet again, his newly-wed wife was gone. It took him seven years to track her down and learn her secret that was sealed with gunpowder and blood.