In Hawk's Flight, Ronald E. Holtman explores the deep scars of trauma and how heritage, friendship, and loyalty offer hope and healing.

At fourteen, Charles Soaring Hawk Manawa has suffered more pain than most men twice his age. A full-blooded Cherokee living in Broken River, Oklahoma, Hawk's seen his mother abandon him to the neglectful care of his alcoholic father. Now he's mourning his older brother, a Vietnam veteran driven to suicide by chronic pain and war injuries.

George Wheeler, the US Army Ranger sergeant who accompanied Hawk's brother into battle, returns...