G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1994, 1^st Edition, 1^st pr.  ISBN 0-399-13915-X.  Hard cover, 192 pages.  Like new; very tight binding, outer page block tanned, faint shelf wear; appears unread.  Dust jacket with price intact has very light edge and cover wear.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  Author’s debut novel.  ‘Deep in the blazing desert of New Mexico Territory, Swanson stumbles across the survivors of an Apache ambush:  three nuns and seven orphans the sisters have bought and saved from Mexican slave traders. … The Apaches, legendary for the tortures they inflict on their victims, have them surrounded.’ (from front flap)