Wayfinding

Solomon Wythe sells hand-drawn maps and reads newspapers aloud for a dime across drought-cracked Texas, until an Army captain hands him a stranger's errand: deliver a nine-year-old girl, four years a Comanche captive, to the county judge who claims her. Two hundred miles of raiding trails, swollen rivers, and hard men lie between. So does a growing suspicion that the judge's kinship papers are a lie—and that honoring the law may cost the child everything.