Ten years have passed and everyone is getting ready to celebrate the wedding anniversary of Shayleen and Trace. It was thirty five years ago when this soft spoken mountain man fell in love with the wild tomboy Shayleen O'Malley. From the moment he looked into her eyes, she had captured his soul and heart. He knew he would walk through hell and back for his Autumn Sky.
Thirty five years they had shared, joy, sorrow, love, but nothing could compare to the day she lost Trace. As she held him in her arms, she made a promise to him a promise that their granddaughter fought so hard for.
It was 150 years after the fact but 150 years after the Sand Creek massacre, that the United States government formally apologized to the Cheyenne nation and the entire nation for the inexcusable actions of the army under John Chivington on innocent women and children.