Review: Fire on the Prarie
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 23, 2013
Spencer McCabe has been seeking the men, Jayhawkers, who killed his father and two brothers 8 yrs. ago; his first meeting with Mercy Hibbert is at her farm in Kansas. Mercy is from Massachusetts and is trying to farm the land since her father's death. Her 14 yr. old sister, invalid mother and brother all depend on her. Mercy is a God fearing woman and often quotes scripture to Spencer in their relationship. She knows him for the kind of man he is, one on the move, dangerous, definitely not a gentleman and most likely a Missouri bushwhacker. Even though Spencer and his brother leave Mercy's farm, he shows up again, in time to save her from a gang of bushwhackers; when Mercy's farm is burned to the ground, Spencer loads up Mercy and her family in order to take them to his home in Missouri, but his thirst for revenge has him moving right into the camp of the bushwhackers again when he sees opportunity to finally get his revenge on Luther Maddox, the Dark Angel. This book was very good, the author brings in a lot of History but it helps bind the story together rather than distracting from it.