Her father may have sacrificed his personal life to save lots of hers, but heiress Gloria Meriwether-Astor is getting it hard to forgive him. After all, how many teenagers of her acquaintance will inherit prosperity, beauty, and a legacy of arms dealing? Today the Royal Kingdom of Spain as well as the Californias is about to declare war on the Texican Place and Gloria basically will not allow it.In company with Alice Chalmers and the crew of Swan, along with a lost young Evan Douglas wanting to produce reparation for his very own sins, she needs to the air. Her intention-to prevent the train carrying the final delivery of monstrous mechanicals in to the Crazy West. But they should have known that making a cope with surroundings pirate Ned Mose in exchange for his help could under no circumstances end well.What is a woman of principle to do? For the lives of hundreds may depend on her behalf ability to end the war … though it means shedding everything and everyone she’s come to love.