The Ridge Watcher

He was a soldier fighting for a future that betrayed him. Now he must become a ghost to survive its memory.

In the blood-soaked deserts of the Mexican Revolution, Antonio Montiel is a man caught between two worlds. As a Yaqui warrior, he fights for the return of his ancestral lands, guided by his grandfather’s spiritual teachings of the “First...

Part of The Ridge Watcher Series

Bee Adkins goes out each morning the way most men go to work: practical, precise, and with the little rituals that keep a dangerous life from seeping into the rest of it. Hired to stop a mountain lion that's been killing calves on the Briggs place, Bee expects a routine trap, a clean kill, and a payday that will...

In the shadow of the Mexican Revolution, one man chooses the mountain over mercy—and discovers that survival demands he become something more than human.

1924, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona Territory

Antonio Montiel has a new name now: Tohua—"the one who leaves behind." After surviving deportation to the Yucatán henequen plantations and a...

The vigil is over. The mountain is not finished.

August 1954. The Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona.

For thirty years, Tohua has kept watch from a peak no map shows -- a solitary sentinel guarding a community that descended to the valley, a culture that transformed to survive, a silence the modern world has no use for. Now his heart is failing, and...