CABALLERO'S PENANCE: A Novel of Flashing Blades in Old California:BY THE AUTHOR OF ZORRO

Forced to Live as a Peon in Penance for His Sins - He Learned What It Truly Meant to Be a Caballero! From the author of the Mark of Zorro comes another thrilling novel of swordplay and romance in Spanish California. Don Fernando Venegas, caballero and scion of a proud Castilian family, knew nothing of the sweat and suffering of those beneath him. That is until he killed a rival in a duel, with malice in his heart, and accepted the penance imposed by his priest and confessor, Fray Marcos. For three months he must live as a peon, enduring the blows, the toil and humiliation that is their daily lot, forbidden under pain of being refused absolution to ever reveal his true status.
How Don Fernando, now known only as Fernando, met up with the mysterious peon Pablo, the giant outlaw El Cougar, his beautiful sister Singing Wind, and the evil, sheming Luis Rios -how he saved the peons from being dupes of an unscrupulous demagogue working for Rios-how he almost lost his inamorata, the lovely Senorita Manuela Moreno, and his own head-how he be¬came a champion of the downtrodden, whose swordplay and daring equaled those of Zorro . . . makes a swift, action-packed tale of Spanish California guaranteed to thrill every reader who loved the same author's tales of the black masked carver of Zs!