Set sometime in the 1800s, Preserved by a Promise is a short, fun, not-quite-historically-accurate read about an unlikely friendship between two young men at a time when pioneers and Native Americans didn't always get along. Ben McCullough, a pioneer, and Kai, a Sioux brave, met in the woods when they were fifteen. Unsure how to explain their friendship to their families, the two kept it secret. But now war threatens to tear them apart. Will the troubled times destroy them, or will a promise made when they parted ways drive them to risk everything for one another?