In Gray Eagle, Book 1: The Fledgling, young Robert McAllister had only one thing he considered his friend, and that was a baby sparrow named Little Eagle. And then he met the family of slaves and their new owner, along with the young, tall Osage Indian named Luke Finley,and his world began to expand.
In Flight of the Fledgling, Gray Eagle Book 2, the true depth of one man's hatred for an entire race begins to come home to Robert. Unfortunately, the hatred is in the heart of his grandfather, Nobby, and toward the family of slaves who have become dear friends to him. Robert also learns what whisky can do to a family, and the true heartbreak of being left alone in the wilderness with only a mother as a companion who hardly seems to have any natural love left inside her.
Through trials of the loss of family and friends, the real, physical test of courage after falling into a den of diamondback rattlesnakes, young Robert McAllister continues to follow the trail of his life, the trail that leads him down a dark path from which there may be no return...