"Aux confins de l'Ouest américain, peu après la guerre de Sécession, une petite garnison de soldats démobilisés vit à l'abandon sous les ordres d'un major mélancolique et tourmenté. Leur torpeur est secouée par l'arrivée de deux femmes arrachées aux Indiens. Si la première raconte les violences endurées, l'autre se terre dans un mutisme de mauvais augure pour la garnison. Premier roman."
"After being returned to "civilization," Abigail Buwell finds this new life a prison and finds the only person willing to listen to her plees for help is Major Robert Cutter, who is also trying to free himself from haunting memories of the Civil War."
"After being returned to "civilization," Abigail Buwell finds this new life a prison and finds the only person willing to listen to her plees for help is Major Robert Cutter, who is also trying to free himself from haunting memories of the Civil War."@en
"'I will not live among you,' says Abigail Buwell when she is taken from her life among the savages and returned, against her will, to 'civilisation' the last military outpost on the frontier's hostile edge."