There is always a price...and it's paid in blood.

Eli Gault was raised by a merciless, drunken fire-and-brimstone preacher—until he avenged himself upon his pious father. And that was only the beginning of his rage.

Because when Eli meets Cutter Sharpe—a legendary mankiller and expert gunhand—the pair starts shooting their way across Texas, leaving a trail of blood and bodies behind them. But Eli is about to learn that there's a line a man shouldn't cross, because there's no going back—there's only hell to pay.