An Uncommon Enemy Hardcover - 2001

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On the day after Thanksgiving, 1868, George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry attack a sleeping Cheyenne village on the banks of the Washita. Ironically, the village was presided over by Black Kettle, the foremost peace chief of the Cheyenne Nation. During the senseless slaughter of men, women, and children, the soldiers find Eden Murdoch, a white woman presumed dead years before. The army expects to use her for propaganda purposes and to refute accusations that the Cheyenne village posed no threat to white settlers, but Eden refuses to take part. She refuses to even acknowledge that the army "rescued" her from a "savage" society. She avoids giving the details of her story to any of the officers; she will say only that she considered her Cheyenne husband and his other wives family.

Custer's young and inexperienced aide-de-camp, Captain Brad Randall, is assigned the task of looking after Eden. Beginning to doubt Custer's actions and struggling to act honorably, Brad is both fascinated and perplexed by Eden's eccentric behavior. He becomes obsessed with learning the truth behind Eden's bizarre journey, and when Eden begins to reveal it, his own future changes. Eden and Brad unexpectedly set in motion events that will echo all the way to Little Bighorn.