Historical Fiction
Bloody Knife
Scout. Survivor. A man caught between nations.
To serve one army, he must cross the country that remembers him as an enemy.
Bloody Knife, an Arikara scout, moves between the United States Army and the Native nations resisting its advance. Trusted for what he knows and never fully accepted by either side, he carries histories that the officers around him cannot see.
His path toward the Little Bighorn is not simply a march toward battle, but a reckoning with loyalty, survival, and the cost of belonging nowhere completely.
Brian R. Smith 