Features the first three SURGE novels: Round Prairie Inferno, Senachwine Crossing and Four Cedars. Action and adventure set in the era of The House Divided. Second generation Illinois settler, Lycurgus Sherwood has been more concerned with the day to day business of his farm in Marshall County than he has with the numerous runaway slaves filtering up the Dixon Trail on the Underground Railroad. When his sister and her husband are ruthlessly murdered by Mississippi bounty hunters Surge is transformed. Includes a special introduction and map by the author.