Jens’s dad is at war far away. Every day, Jens fears that he will get a horrible message about his dad. That he will never come home. Jens watches the news with his mother every night. He is afraid to pick up the phone when it rings. And he is afraid to open the door, when someone knocks. At school, they say that his dad is killing children. And one day, when Jens and his mom come home, the red light on the answering machine is blinking…
The U.S. Army didn’t quite know what to do with Captain John Early. But he would never consider mustering out. So the army’s plan was to get him out of the way. They assigned him to camp Sheridan – to protect the same Indians he’d been fighting all his life. It was a job they thought no one could handle, and Early was a man they could afford to lose. They just didn’t know how good a soldier they’d created. Because Captain John Early would indeed protect his charges – even from the army itself.