Blood Red

In one day, young Zach Morton witnessed the murder of his parents; killed his first man; watched his home go up in smoke and put his horse down. Not surprisingly, he was seeing red.blood red. Certain that a half-breed would get no justice from the law, Zach fled into a mountain snow storm to evade a posse. Pa had talked about an old wise Indian who lived in the mountains of his mother's people. He hoped to find the man - and justice.
He found the summer camp of his mother's people, but the White Mountain Apache were reluctant to let a white man speak to their revered wise man. Zach was taken to the remote ranch of a Mexican and his ward. There he received lessons on living like an Apache. Zach resisted any tutoring that didn't show him how to fight the corrupt rancher responsible for the death of his parents. Diego and Becca were determined to shape Zach into something he wasn't.
All the training is giving Cord time to take over the Morton ranch. Zach must decide whether he should confront Cord without a gun and chance being killed or even hanged, or relinquish the ranch and any hope of a future.