The Cumberland Rifles

HE SWORE ALLEGIANCE TO CONQUEST…

Born to the sword and bred to violence, he had hacked his swashbuckling way through a dozen European wars with gold as his only ally…a fighter no man could match, a lover no woman could resist…

This was Janus Elholm, dauntless soldier of fortune. Spurred by the promise of fabulous wealth, encouraged by the lips of the loveliest woman in Spain, Janus crossed the Atlantic to command a Spanish invasion of frontier America. Neither the savagery of the Indians nor the courage of the valiant American woodsmen could still his burning greed…

But Janus was to learn one thing… That one beautiful woman could alter the destiny of men land nations alike…