IT'S OCTOBER, 1914. Life is finally coming together for Andrew Maxwell and Theresa Many Clouds after years filled with violent turmoil and racial conflict. They have built a life as a couple ensconced in a small house with their two adopted half-Indian, half-white children.

Andy's pioneer ranching family is among the most prominent in the Sawtooth Valley area of Northern California. Indeed, the Maxwells were among the most prominent in the whole state. But the envious and greedy and prejudiced and won't let the young family alone.

A large eastern corporation wants a piece of Andy's and Many Clouds', land, and they've paid allies to help grab every inch of acreage they can. Soon threats to the couple, their children and their property, as well as the hostility of the law toward Native Americans threaten their very existence.

Swindle in Sawtooth Valley is the story of the struggle Andrew and Many Clouds must wage to combat the forces that endanger everything they've fought for. Their family, their children and their very existence. It's the story of a struggle against long odds filled with romance, adventure, and suspense that will keep you reading to the very last page and then leave you hungry for more.