A collection of three interwoven stories surrounding the infamous Dead Man's Hand of cards. In Part I, Edmund Rothers encounters a gambler with a grudge in nineteenth century Kansas. In Part II, one of his descendants discovers the perils of online gambling in the twenty-first century. In Part III, a legendary gunslinger learns the true extent to his legacy.

The collection also includes the first chapter of the pulp Western novella, The Guns of Retribution, as a sample read.