The War Within

Gritty, action packed, and vividly told, The War Within is the story of seventeen year old Boston debutante, Cathleen O'Donnell's struggle to survive the emotional damage of an Indian attack that killed her family, stole her innocence, and forced her to depend on a hated Rebel, with a death wish.
At the end of the civil war the O'Donnell's joined thousands of battle hardened veterans and headed west to make a fresh start.
The Comanche Indians, saw the invasion as an opportunity for glory, slaves, and horses. The clash of cultures was bloody; and a continuation of the emotional stress and fear of war most whites were trying to forget. Today that fear is known as post traumatic stress…in 1870 it had no name, only a legion of lost souls wandering the country, populating the bars and jails, seeking a meaning of life in a bottle, at the point of a gun, or in a six foot hole in the ground.