When Blake Durant rode into the town of Covey, he also rode straight into a hornet's nest of trouble—the worst storm in living memory, that left great swathes of land underwater ... ill-feeling between two ranchers that resulted in one being arrested for the murder of the other ... a lynch-mob that wouldn't be satisfied until they had a body dangling from the end of a rope ... and a bank robbery that ended in death.
The town was a powder keg waiting to explode, and it seemed that Blake's arrival was just the spark needed to set it off. With no real choice in the matter, the man they called The Loner had to see it through, right to the final showdown in a deserted saloon at night, when the man he had hunted for so long turned the tables and came hunting for him ...