Meet Kid Kane. The youngest brother, the passionate one, the one who lives with his soul exposedโheโs never met a woman he canโt seduce.
When the spirit fever struck a town, a village or an outpost, it left few if any survivors. The white man blamed the Indian saying they used their mojo on them. The Indians blamed the white man for angering the spirits. The survivors knew it didnโt matter. The Fevered were forever changed.
A gift he needs to tameโฆ
Kid feels what the world around him feels, he is a raw, bleeding nerve, and he canโt control the pain anymore. After lashing out at everyone he loves, he agrees to an exile atop Quantoโs mountain to learn to control the power he wields. Desperate to end it, Kid battles with Wyatt the eldest Morning Starโhoping against hope that the man will kill him. He longs only for peaceโฆ
A gift she wants to harnessโฆ
Evelyn Lang grew up with a territorial judge for a father, and a secretโher fatherโs Fevered ability passed to her. When heโs killed in broad daylight in a little town in Kansas after freeing a slave, Lang is no longer bound by her fatherโs oath to never use her abilityโnow she must train it. She travels across hostile territory in search of the man who trained her father. She longs only for vengeanceโฆ
Tempestuous passions, opposing needs, and impulsive decisions divide themโฆ
Conflicting goals put Kid and Evelyn in direct opposition. Her hunger for justice cuts him, but Quanto refuses his requests to train alone. Forced to train together, they must confront their deepest fears if they are ever to achieve their greatest desireโฆ.