Its subject is the American pulp hero Diego de la Vega, better known as El Zorro (The Fox).

Captain Alejandro de la Vega, a Spanish soldier, marries a Native American woman named Regina.

While Regina is pregnant with Diego, she befriends Ana, also Native American and a young Christian convert assigned to care for her during her pregnancy.

As youths, Diego and Bernardo undergo an indigenous rite of passage to prove their maturity and to find their spirit guides.

Tomas urges Alejandro to send Diego to Barcelona, where he can receive more formal schooling, and learn fencing under the maestro Manuel Escalante.

At Escalante's invitation, Diego joins La Justicia, a secret organization devoted to justice for people who are marginalized in society.

After months of traveling on foot, dressed as religious pilgrims, they reach the port and board a ship captained by Diego's old friend, Santiago de León.

Diego returns to California with Isabel and her chaperone, to find his father in prison and his lands confiscated by his arch-enemy, Moncada.

This was the first anthology of original Zorro short fiction, edited by Richard Dean Starr and published by Moonstone Books.