NO TIME TO TRUST is the story of Joe, so-named by a 7 year old orphan. It is set in the year 1878 in Montana. It is a story replete with victims, vengeance, duty to family and honor. Joe is introduced to the reader having no name, no past, no knowledge of who or where he is. Unconscious-the victim of a shooting-with a head wound that deprives him of his long term memory and very nearly his life, Joe struggles to put the pieces of his life's puzzle together. Initially through dream sequences and later, through fragments of memories, unusual events and encounters, he learns that he is a gunman,...

The setting is Southern Montana, Crow Territory, not long after Custer's encounter with the Indians. The Crow Woman's sudden death has left Pistol, her husband, angry. Pistol is a skilled hunter, as familiar with a knife as a shotgun, aggrieved by the loss of his wife. How did he get to this place? How did he get from England to Montana, from tracking his missing brother to settling down as husband, father, Indian brother, from peace to vengeance? The death of the Crow Woman is a fire bomb, not just for Pistol, but for her family, her tribe, and the tenuous peace with the military. For...