Ten years ago, Jace Smithson and his gang robbed a gold camp of every ounce of color those hard-luck miners had been able to tear from the ground. Jace and one of his compadres, Clay Richter, were eventually captured and jailed, but no one ever knew what became of the gold.
Ten years later, Smithson and Richter were released, and dodging Pinkerton detectives and a gun-fast bounty hunter who figured the jailbirds would claim their booty as soon as they were freed. The robbers had a plan for dealing with any opposition – a violent plan. But what they didn't count on was the location at which they'd cached their loot all those years before. It wasn't far from the town of Lazy Rim. And Lazy Rim was the very place gunfighters Shane Preston and Jonah Jones had chosen for their retirement.
Even then, Shane and Jonah might have not have gotten involved, but Shane was wearing a badge while the sheriff was away on his honeymoon, and that badge carried with it a heavy responsibility ...