Redstone Stories: An anthology
Four complete short stories, featuring Daniel "Two Horses" Thorne-Redstone and his friend, Jake Holder, set during a ten-year period, between 1837 and 1847, in the Texas Hill Country, in the vicinity of its Enchanted Rock.
This anthology and its stories introduce the characters, Daniel and Jake, whose further adventures, and those of their descendants, will be explored in The Redstone Trilogy, a series of western fantasy novels set between 1852 and 1883 - and beyond.
The four stories in this anthology are:
"Vision Quest," an extended version of a short-short tale which was published earlier, where Daniel Two-Horses Thorne goes on his first quest, to find his spirit guides and to become a Penateka warrior.
"Incident at Bandera Pass," an earlier version of another short-short story has been revised for this volume, introduces a Texas Ranger, Jake Holder, and tells the story of his actions at the Battle of Bandera Pass, and of his meeting with a white warrior, who will become a part of his future.
"A Time for Peace," briefly available through Smashwords as a single short story, now a part of this anthology, has Daniel and Jake racing to stop a possible massacre, and witnessing negotiations for the only treaty between a group of America's native people and pioneer settlers that was never broken: The Meusebach/Comanche treaty of 1847. During the story, Daniel confronts a shadow from his past, and comes to a peace of his own.
"A Time for Love," a completely new story which takes place in the early community of Fredericksburg, Texas, during the signing of the Meusebach/Comanche Treaty, where Jake meets a woman who will change his destiny, and where Daniel's life begins to turn in a new direction.
