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Interpreter’s Wages
Book Two of the Trails of Sembo James
by A. James Albright

In the borderlands of 1836 Missouri, Sembo James—Choctaw interpreter, prizefighter, and reluctant hero—finds himself caught between the promises of the American frontier and the wounds of a nation still reeling from removal and war. When a brutal ambush forces him westward, Sembo joins a wagon train bound for the Platte River, where danger rides in every shadow and loyalty is bought in blood.

Haunted by memory and bound by honor, Sembo must navigate shifting alliances, a forbidden love, and the ghosts of his past to protect those who travel with him. But the wages of survival are steep—and the cost of justice may be more than he can bear.

Rich with lyrical prose, Indigenous perspective, and unflinching historical detail, Interpreter’s Wages is a powerful tale of identity, resistance, and the price of freedom on the American trail.