Blood Is Our Birthright — Christopher Baldwin

Texas, 1865. The War Between the States has ended, but the Armstrong-Anderson feud rages across the prairie. Returning from the ashes of Virginia's guerrilla battles, where he fought with John Mosby's Partisan Rangers, Press Anderson becomes enmeshed in his family's struggle for survival when a vicious cattle baron decides to turn west Texas into his personal fiefdom. Maneuvering through a brutal world where racial hatred and violence toward women are the order of the day, Press is thrust into the forefront of the fight for an inheritance he detests, a birthright bequeathed in blood. To rescue the woman he loves from cutthroats backed by a corrupt law, he will be forced to confront his forgotten origins and ally himself with society's outcasts. Half Comanche, half white, and all man, Press Anderson must discover whether he embodies the best of two worlds or the worst. His answer will be found at the point of a gun.