Beneath the Same Stars: A Novel of the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War

Perhaps every woman will lie for the man she lies with.

August 18, 1862. On the Sioux reservation in southwestern Minnesota, Indians desperate for food and freedom rise up against whites in the region. Sarah Wakefield, the wife of a physician, is taken captive with her two babies by the warrior Ćaske. As war rages, little does she know how entwined their lives will become.

This is the gripping story of two people, caught between worlds, who are willing to do almost anything to defend those th...