Cody Cavanaugh (Book 1)
When Union private Cody Cavanaugh is captured and sent to a Confederate prison, he's befriended by Sean O'Meara, who has a secret stash of stolen Confederate gold. When he realizes he won't survive, he tells Cody where the treasure is hidden and elicits a promise to deliver it to O'Meara's fiancee, Eleanor Perry. At the war's end, Cody retrieves the gold, but Eleanor proves hard to find. Her trail leads him to Pedregosa, which is in a war between miner and rancher factions, and Cody winds up in the middle of it. When he makes enemies of both sides, only his own hard-won skills can save his life and bring the war to an end.