Young Dan Gates had grown up never knowing his mother. All his father had ever told him was that she had died giving birth to him and her name was Masilda. Shortly after his eighteenth birthday there is a double murder on the ranch owned by his father. When a U.S. Marshall named Harlan Mann comes to investigate the murders he brings more to the town of Lubbock than they could ever have imagined. Dark secrets running back over twenty years will be brought to light and the man responsible for it all will be one of their own.