"When Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, he has mixed emotions. Raised by the old man he entrusted too soon after his birth, Frank is haunted by the brief and troubling moments he has shared with his father, Eldon. When he finally travels by horseback to town, he finds Eldon on the edge of death...in telling his story, Eldon offers his son a world the boy has never seen, [and] a history he has never known"--amazon.com.