"During the Civil War, teenager Alistair Durant of Clay County, Missouri, joins Quantrill's raiders and comes to know him as a friend and mentor, but also as a manipulator and opportunist"--
"Mad Carter MacRae recalls the summer of 1873, the summer he turned sixteen, the summer he met Estrella 'Star' O'Sullivan, the summer the whole word came crumbling down. It was his last trail drive and his life would never be the same again"--