Hawk's Flight: Book 1 of the Wheeler Chronicles

George Wheeler, a US Army Ranger, returns from Vietnam with the mission of visiting his severely injured comrade in Broken River, Oklahoma. But he is too late; the full-blood Cherokee has taken his own life.

In his place, George finds Hawk, an angry young man struggling with his brother’s suicide, his mother’s abandonment, and his father’s alcoholism. Thrown together to deal with the pain and trauma of their pasts, they begin to build a new future.

Then Hawk’s mother returns, bringing violence in her wake, and when the unthinkable happens, Hawk is forced to run as far as he can. George is desperate to bring the teen back—and home—but first, he has to find him…