For Cavalry Sergeant Ed Blaine, wounded by an Apache lance, the way station offered a chance to recover. All he wanted was a place to rest. But it was not to be.

First he met up with the girl he had once been about to marry. And then he found himself under the guns of a bunch of outlaws waiting to free their brother from an incoming stage, men who had a past score to settle with Blaine.

Just when Blaine figured it couldn't get any worse, Butler's Station was hit by a band of warring Apaches. He had Apaches in front and outlaws with guns at his back. And they all wanted him dead.

When Luke Kennick answered the urgent summons that drew him back to the Army fort, it brought him face to face with ghosts from his past he wanted to stay long buried. Despite his concerns, he agreed to escort the captive Comanche warrior Kicking Bear across the country to face his trial.

It meant a lonely, dangerous trek across an increasingly hostile land, with vengeful men who wanted to kill him and the unexpected burden of a beautiful young woman he found abandoned along the way.

Luke Kennick was forced to face the shadows of his past and the dangers of the present, and he had no way to go except the violent trail that made his Savage Journey, knowing that there would have to be a showdown at the end.