The author of The Betrayal, The Outcast, and The Dark Secrets does it again! Who is Pyotr Tropimovitz Barnov? An expatriate Russian aristocrat, searching for adventure in America's Wild West? A socialist on the run from Tsarist forces? An apostate Jew? A faithful follower of Torah? And why is Barnov's life inextricably tied to the fate of Gedaliah Kagan, a young Jewish man conscripted into the Tsar's brutal army? No one knows. All that is certain...