Domingo Beltran

An infamous bandit, El Serpiente, targets Santa Helena, inadvertently pitting the Queen of Swords and Doctor Helm against each other. The Serpent, injured by the Queen, has the doctor kidnapped. Helm feels bound by his professional oath to save his life, while the Queen cannot understand helping a killer. Can they save Santa Helena from El Serpiente - and themselves from one another?

A clipper ship delivers strangers, a Samurai master and his apprentice, to a strange land. After the master is murdered, the young initiate, Kami, vows to avenge the killers - and walks right into one of Montoya's traps, one pitting the Japanese warrior against the Queen of Swords. Will Kami seek the truth, or be blinded by revenge?