The Black Hills Dilemma will be released April 15, 2027.

Gold prospectors are creeping into the Black Hills and onto the Sioux reservation during the spring of 1875, feeding the rising tension between the Sioux chiefs and the US government. Adventurer and outfitter Jubilee Walker has found the mistreatment of the Indians at government hands increasingly problematic. He’s done what he can to straighten out matters at the Crow reservation, where his friend White Dog makes his home, only to discover how widespread the problems actually are. When it appears that President Grant’s administration plans to break the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, Jubil vows to change the situation. Can his appeals to his friends in high places—General William T. Sherman, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, and even President Grant himself—make any difference at all? And what if his best efforts fail?

As Jubil gives everything he has to fighting for what he knows is right, his wife, Nelly, struggles with the conflicts within the fight for women’s rights, and Jubil’s friend Shawn Flynn dreams of making his fortune in the Black Hills. When Flynn goes missing in Deadwood, Jubil has to weigh his principles against the life of a friend without whom he and Nelly would not have survived events the previous year at the Montana gold mine. If Jubil and White Dog enter Sioux territory to find Flynn, will they make it out alive?

The events in the fifth and final book in the Jubilee Walker series adhere closely to the historical record of the fight for women’s rights and the Black Hills gold rush.