Beyond Little Bighorn

What if the most famous defeat in the American West was only the doorway to a far more fragile rescue?Royce Dutchman has spent his life following orders, burying friends, and living with the cost of impossible decisions. When the mysterious Koa Náhkohe offers him a contract that could help save his sick daughter, he accepts a mission he does not understand: lead a small specialist team into the summer of 1876, days before the Battle of Little Bighorn.The official brief calls it a historical observation and recovery operation.It is not.Little Bighorn is only the anchor point - the one event famous and documented enough to open a path into the past. Koa's true objective lies months beyond Custer's last stand, in the frozen aftermath of another, less remembered tragedy: the destruction of a Northern Cheyenne village in the Bighorn Mountains.There, a medicine woman named Ohkomóhonáhe carries songs, ceremonies, and teachings that were nearly lost to history. Her apprentice is not ready. The winter is coming. And if Koa fails, an entire thread of memory may remain unfinished forever.But changing history is never clean. Some lives are written down. Some vanish into footnotes. Some are never recorded at all. As Dutchman and his team move through battles, burning lodges, mountain cold, and impossible moral choices, they must decide what can be saved, what must be left untouched, and how much one unfinished life can matter when weighed against the record of history itself.Beyond Little Bighorn is a time travel alternate history novel about memory, duty, cultural survival, and the human cost of choosing mercy when the past refuses to give clean answers.