When Carter Ross left Texas to fight in the Civil War, he left his half brother, Johnny, in charge of his young family Johnny was half Comanche, but Carter had always loved his little brother and his Comanche relatives When the war was over, Carter came home, ready to put fighting behind him He hadn't expected to find himself in the middle of another battle just as bloody and even more ruthless The Comanches were being wiped out by the white settlers, and the Indians were fighting back any way they could, even if it meant raiding and pillaging the property of Carter's neighbours How could his neighbours expect Carter to bear arms against his own half brother?