Yellow Boy, Killer of Witches, returns wounded from a cat-and-mouse chase and rifle duel with Blood of the Devil, the giant Mexican/Comanche witch whose head is painted like a skull, his body covered with black spiral and flame tattoos. The witch, also wounded, disappears into the dry plains across the Rio Grande, knowing the Apache he left bleeding in the sand will one day reappear. With the Army occupation ended, Yellow Boy, Juanita, their new baby daughter, and his Mescalero band return to the reservation. Better days come with the arrival of a strong but fair Indian agent, W.H.H. Llewellyn, who the Mescalero call “Tata Crooked Nose.” Yellow Boy joins Llewellyn’s tribal police and for a time becomes an Army scout participating in General Crook’s Sierra Madre Campaign returning Apache to the San Carlos Reservation. He finds and faces Blood of the Devil but later loses his daughter to pneumonia sweeping the reservation. Warned of his destiny by Geronimo, he dreams of a young boy he will one day save from murder.

Blood of the Devil, Book 2 of the Life and Times of Yellow Boy, Mescalero Apache, continues Killer of Witches’s powerful story—truth told with fiction that transports the reader to a different background, culture, history, time, and religion. It is the other side of Apache history lived by a people fighting the tsunami of Americans migrating west and the terrors of their supernatural insights as their White Eye overseers attempt to change their culture.

The story of the last ten years of Geronimo’s wars mirrors the rage, battles, and deception told in Homer’s Iliad, the story of the ten-year Greek and Trojan War.

The Iliad of Geronimo begins ten years before Geronimo's surrender to the Americans with Geronimo being hauled four hundred miles in chains to the San Carlos Reservation Guardhouse, there to await hanging in Tucson. Almost miraculously, Geronimo escaped hanging and lived peacefully for a time at San Carlos.

Geronimo and his followers escaped reservations three times during the nearly ten years of Geronimo’s Iliad. After leaving the reservations, the Apache raided and made war from their great Troy-like fortress, the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico. Chiricahua Apache heroes, like their Greek and Trojan counterparts, were great warriors, their names filling the Americans and Mexicans with terror—Naiche, Loco, Chihuahua, Nana, Jelikinne, Ulzana, Kaytennae, Chato—and the most feared—Geronimo.

The Iliad of Geronimo is an epic story told through Geronimo’s eyes of the ten years of blood and fire he wrought on his enemies when most of his people wanted peace with the Americans and the Mexicans. Only after General Miles offered terms that allowed Geronimo and his warriors to see their families was their war ended. The terms were like a Trojan horse filled with lies instead of warriors, that once accepted, allowed no escape for men who didn’t suffer fools gladly and couldn’t be broken as warriors.

In the cold November wind of 1865, five hundred Mescalero Apaches at the Bosque Redondo Apache/Navajo concentration camp near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, vanished one night under the watchful eyes of the U.S. Army. They were never caught. Among them is a five-year-old boy who becomes a legend around the fires of the Mescalero.

Ussen, God, Creator of life, gives the boy, grown to a warrior, a gift of Power. With his Power he is so accurate with his Yellow Boy rifle he can kill witches by shooting their eyes to send them forever blind to the Happy Land of the grandfathers. He is immune to ghost sickness, and he will be known as Yellow Boy.

Yellow Boy must soon test his Power to find and kill a giant, Mexican-Comanche witch, his bald head painted to look like a skull, his body tattooed with black spirals and flames, and the leader of a band of Comanches and Mexican banditos who have murdered and scalped all but a small remnant of Yellow Boy’s People. It is a hunt and odyssey that ranges for years across the American southwest and Mexican Sierra Madre Mountains.

Killer of Witches is a powerful story, truth told with fiction transporting the reader to a different background, culture, history, time, and religion. It is the other side of Apache history told by a People fighting the tsunami of Americans migrating west and the terrors of supernatural beliefs appearing in their lives.