"I'll take wolves an' panthers any day over men. 'Least ya KNOW they wants to gnaw off yer leg," growled Lightnin' Jack Hawkins after his family was annihilated by the worst sort of treachery. Now, he and his brother, Red Hawk, found themselves in a grim situation. Facing a winter without proper supplies, they return to civilization only to fight in Major James Grant's disastrous attack on Fort Duquesne. Retreating to Fort Ligonier, they later withstand two French assaults. In the second, Red Hawk is murdered in gristly fashion by the rogue Iroquois princess, Dark Star. Full of hatred and psychotic rage, she is a villain not soon to be forgotten! Nor is Doug Blood, the serial killer who befriends Hawkins. The age-old themes of wickedness and revenge darken this chapter of the French and Indian War set in the Pennsylvania wilderness during the autumn of 1758.