Dark Passage
A Barnaby Skye Novel
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Publisher Description
It is 1831 and Barnaby Skye, a deserter from the British Royal Navy and now a seasoned trapper in the Rocky Mountains, accompanies his Crow wife, Mary Quill Woman--whom he calls "Victoria"--to her village on the Yellowstone River. Victoria--unhappy with her husband's drinking and his unwillingness to join her people's fight against their sworn enemies, the Blackfeeet--succumbs to the entreaties of Jim Beckwourth, the much-honored and wealthy mulatto war chief of the Crow People.
But when Victoria is abducted by the Bloods, the deadliest band of Blackfeet, Skye trails her across the border into Canada, where he is still wanted for deserting his ship at Fort Vancouver four years ago. But the Bloods are a deadly force, and Skye must face his fiercest battle ever to win her freedom and her heart.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This deftly crafted western is the 10th in Spur Award-winning Wheeler's Skye's West series, the adventures of fledgling mountainman Barnaby Skye (last seen in 1997's Rendezvous, which, like this novel, is a prequel to the earlier books). It is now 1830, four years after Skye deserted from the Royal Navy and headed into the wilderness, a hunted fugitive. Having endured harsh weather and severe hunger, Skye is now a respected trapper and a skilled camp tender for an American fur company. In this exciting installment, his most important challenge, however, is his marriage to Many Quill Woman, or Victoria, as he calls her. To his dismay, when he goes to live with Victoria's tribe, Skye finds that he has no honor or prestige among the Crow, and he finally loses his wife to the arrogant attentions of fabled mountainman Jim Beckwourth, who is also a mighty Crow subchief. Disgraced and banished, Skye wanders aimlessly through the mountains and plains until he is captured by the Bloods, a fierce Blackfeet clan, and faces torture and the promise of slow death. But a grueling chain of events reunites Skye and Victoria in new perils that will see them live or perish together.
